Quotes About Precision

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

In four-day cricket, you have to be consistent; you have to bowl in one area.

Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it's hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.

If you are good enough to play international cricket, you can take wickets - but you have to bowl the right length.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

For every striker, it's important to have some crosses. Sometimes they come, sometimes not.

It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.

I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.

That is very important, to play with your feet, it is very important to know how to read the game and obviously save balls and also handle the pressure when it comes to the crunch time.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

In snooker, it's very important to keep very still on the shot and allow the cue to do the work.

Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

Good balance makes you a better dancer, musician, actor - anything.

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.

I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter.

You've got to be smart about tackling.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

It's the tactics, the little things I like to focus on and get better at.