Quotes About Precision

I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

The hands of a pianist, or a painter, or a sushi chef, or even, as with Thomas Newcomen, hands that could use a hammer to shape soft iron, are truly, in any functional sense,

Remember, if you don't get the question right, your answer doesn't matter.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

But in the way of bargain, mark you me,I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.

Some people say I sing behind the beat, but I'm in front of it sometimes too. I know where I am, and that's where I want to be.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.

We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Jazz is the art of timing. It teaches you when. When to start, when to wait, when to step it up, and when to take your time—indispensable tools for making someone else happy.

The supple line of his jaw and the fixed plane of his collarbone functioned together like a precisely calibrated instrument that seemed to become a separate living thing as we watched.

I wondered why ordinary words seemed so exotic when they were used in relation to numbers. Amicable numbers or twin primes had a precise quality about them, and yet they sounded as though they'd been taken straight out of a poem.

To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.

The pursuit of perfection required rigor and discipline.