Quotes About Precision

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Stamp your performance with excellence.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Details are all there are.

Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.

Whatever you do, do it well.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

Simplify, then add lightness.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

that was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.

In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.

Honda has been successful because it is, above all, a company that focuses on doing one thing well—making engines that last a long time for cars, motorcycles, and so-called power products like lawn mowers, generators, snowblowers, and weed or garden trimmers.

Indeed, timing a meal correctly was an art in itself.

What he lacks in clarity, he makes up for in consistency.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. "An aesthetic holocaust!

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust! Bennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.

I mean, technically, he wasn't fired," Emilia clarified. "He was reassigned. But precision of language has never been the gossip mill's forte, and I guess anything's a pretty big step down after the White House.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite.