Quotes About Precision

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

I make sure my lip sync is correct. It's a long process. But I enjoy it.

I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.

Definitely an important aspect of my playing is keeping my hands in sync.

The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.

The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.

And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise, and it is exact.

Yo creo, como dicen algunos, que "Dios está en los detalles". En este caso, se trata de detalles que pasan desapercibidos para los altos directivos desde sus oficinas lujosas.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right just before they go on to the next one.

predictions can't vary more than the thing being forecast.

Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick decision, and the prompt seizure of opportunities - and that all this activity was not propitious for deliberation, elaboration, or precision in thought.

The day the library was shut down, he thought, some maiden librarian had moved down the room, pushing each chair against its table. Carefully, with a plodding precision that was the cachet of herself.

Playing the violin or writing a poem are special ways of paying attention. They are acts at once small and great. Although only one person can commit them, they require orderly marshallings of countless and diverse forces, something like the great landing of armies in Normandy, but incalculably bigger and more complicated.

The only thing worth believing in is measurement.

A simple, five-command loop expands into a beautiful segmented structure of fifty lines. Little portions of program detach into reusable parts. Neelay's father hooks up a cassette tape player, for easy reloading of their hours of work in mere minutes. But the volume button must be set just right, or everything explodes with a read error.

With the special tools of ultramicrochemistry the young chemists could work on undiluted quantities of chemicals as slight as tenths of a microgram (a dime weighs about 2.5 grams— 2,500,000 micrograms). They would manage their manipulations on the mechanical stage of a binocular stereoscopic microscope adjusted to 30-power magnification.

he wrote in retirement: "Two magnitudes are complementary when the measurement of one of them prevents the accurate simultaneous measurement of the other.

Teller prepared himself further at Compañia Hill: "I put on a pair of dark glasses. I pulled on a pair of heavy gloves. With both hands I pressed the welder's glass to my face, making sure no stray light could penetrate around it. I then looked straight at the aim point.