Quotes About Precision

poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

We shall be known by the delicacy of where we stop short.

Most people don't have the patience to absorb their minds in the fine points and minutiae that are intrinsically part of their work. They are in a hurry to create effects and make a splash; they think in large brush strokes. Their work inevitably reveals their lack of attention to detail - it doesn't connect deeply with the public, and it feels flimsy.

You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss your enemies' heart. Mind and arrow must become one.

Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a "Mental Performance Ratio (MPR)

His mind was like the delicate spring of a watch, which quivers for several hours after it has been touched.

Analogies always deceive more than they reveal; I am no fan of analogies, I do not use them. Even metaphor, that mental operation we use with almost every word we speak, is slippery and deceptive. I always speak as plainly as I can. And yet language, and therefore thought, is a strange and imprecise game of metaphors and analogies, one that we must play to stay alive.

It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them.

Proportionally the cable was far thinner than a human hair—if it had been reduced to a hair's diameter

If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches' tits and the like

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Though evasion rarely leads to joy; there is, one must admit, a sense of joy if one can dissect something, oneself included, with precision.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

Never draw a line without purpose.