Quotes About Precision

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

The suggestive patterning and often delicate precision of detail in such coincidences notoriously escape the net of objective assessments and experimental tests. Synchronicities seem to constitute a lived reality the experience of which depends deeply on the sensitive perception of context and nature.

Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

When the performance system is made clear, decision-making becomes more accurate.

Conviction is knowing what to add and what to remove for a performance system we fully understand.

I often got sword fighting and tennis confused.

They were thirty feet away—much too far to reach the elevator—but Leo pulled out a screwdriver and chucked it like a throwing knife. An impossible shot. The screwdriver spun straight past Clytius and slammed into the UP button.

Having the right equipment is often the difference between success and failure. To insert a screw, a carpenter doesn't use a knife. When you're under anesthesia, you don't want your surgeon using a chainsaw. A climber on Mount Everest won't use dollar store equipment. Professionals are picky about using the right equipment as they know it can be dangerous if they aren't. Life can be dangerous, too, so it's essential that you use the right equipment.

It was Daphne Wood who had taught him the value of getting in there with one swift, mean blow rather than prancing around with a duelist's finesse.

I shall bury the blade in your skull, just above your right eye. That's what I love about you. Your precision.

Carlton was a blade; sharp and hard and well built.

Mother put it like this: "Besides taking out my misplaced appendix, he put all my other insides just where they should have been.

their points sharpened like giant pencils, completely

And when things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

cuanto más sencillas son las cosas, menos errores se cometen.

Concision is the sister of talent.

Capt. Jenkins & Lieut. Ramsey—20:05

Lanzar una bomba desde un avión en movimiento y lograr que impactara contra un barco en movimiento, o dejar caer un torpedo de manera que alcanzara un buque, revestía una dificultad increíble, sobre todo para un piloto al que estaban disparando desde arriba y desde abajo.

All the bows bent simultaneously, like blades of wheat in a field blown by a sudden summer breeze; then the arrows were released with a collective sound like a church bell tolling. The shafts, flying faster than the swiftest bird, rose into the air then turned downward and fell on the crossbowmen like a hailstorm.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.