Quotes About Precision

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

I don't need every answer. Just the right answer.

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the illusion of control it offers. When engaged in stitching a new pattern, I can't think about anything else. Guilt, misery, longing all flee away, leaving just the beautiful little microcosm of the world in my hands, the flash of the needle, the rainbow colors of the thread, the calming exactitude of the discipline.

You pitch outside, you throw inside," he liked to say.

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

Continue to wrap these wires around the circle of the bead, applying pressure on the wire. Ensure that each of the new layers is wrapped beneath the previous layer.

Now clip the unwanted parts of your wire, and allow about 1.5 inches of wire to each of the sides to finish the ring with.

No is easier to do, yes is easier to say. No is no to one thing. Yes is no to a thousand things. No is a precision instrument, a surgeon's scalpel, a laser beam focused on one point. Yes is a blunt object, a club, a fisherman's net that catches everything indiscriminately. No is specific. Yes is general.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator.

The more simple you can make it allows your people to get really focused.

Be relentless about simplifying everything without exception.

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

when you go over it, cut out everything you can. The main thing is to know what to leave out. The way you tell whether you're going good is by what you can throw away.

And remember always, "More ought to be scratched out than left.

Her grey hair was arranged with precision, and her clothes looked excessively new and yet slightly old-fashioned. They were always black and tightly fitting, with an expensive glitter: she was the kind of woman who wore jet at breakfast. Lily had never seen her when she was not cuirassed in shining black, with small tight boots, and an air of being packed and ready to start; yet she never started.

In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm of Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat.

Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of.

Precision is easier to master than artful vagueness, especially now when, thanks to Google, novels are fact-heavy. We no longer refer to "flowers" but to particular varieties of roses. The whole valuable distinction between foreground (precise) and background (blurred) has been lost, and now everything is crowding toward the viewer, clamoring for attention.

Critics always praise precision in writing, and some great writers (Joyce, Beckett, Gustave Flaubert) are masters of clarity—but one of the great (and seldom mentioned) resources of fiction is vagueness.

Precisely," Meredith smiled. "If they want to know where they are they'll follow the time of the Royal Observatory. We shall call it Greenwich time," he added.