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Quotes About Precision

Among both individuals with high-functioning autism or Asperger and their parents, many are superfast at spotting details. You hardly have time to get the experimental materials out on the table before they've spotted the target.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
I say this every time I get interviewed, I just try to get my shots on target. If they go in, they go in.
~ Bradley Wright-Phillips
There are not many players about who can go up front and be a target man, be strong, put his body in the way, score goals and then in the game, he can drop off and hit a 30-yard ball through the eye of a needle and knit play together.
~ Paul Merson
The ball comes into the box and you have no idea how it is going to fall. You cannot have thoughts in your head, like, 'It is on my left, I am not going to hit it.' You just have to take it in your stride and hit the target. That is exactly what I try to do.
~ Mason Mount
We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.
~ Tommy Franks
The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.
~ Eric Schmidt
I love long-range rifle shooting. I like anything that deals with precision. I also find that with archery. On my ranch, I have my own range with 3-D targets of animals and hay bales from different distances.
~ Paul Walker
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
~ Camilo Villegas
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
~ Richard P. Feynman
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
~ Kathryn Harrison
I can do a lot in 30 seconds. With Tattoo Liner I can do eyeliner, eyebrow, and, if I want to get creative, a lip look, too.
~ Kat Von D
I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.
~ Norman Swan
It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
~ Neil Peart
Yes, many times an assist is more difficult than a goal; you need to find the right space and measure the force used in order to provide your teammate with the right position in order to score.
~ Andrea Pirlo
I like to dribble and give the decisive pass to my teammates.
~ Ousmane Dembele
When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.
~ Rudy Gobert
Captain Evelyn Waugh of the British Army wrote of the Stuka, "Like all things German, it is very efficient and goes on much too long.
~ Rick Atkinson
Be specific about the problem behavior.
~ Rick Brinkman
I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find.
~ Rick Newcombe
A good shooter taking a great shot is better than a great shooter taking a bad one.
~ Rick Pitino
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
~ Rita Dove
Pan stood on the bank, aiming one of the stun guns. She'd taken all four of the mercenaries out, in the dark, from twenty metres.
~ Rob Lloyd Jones
Discovering you've missed your tea's perfect drinking temperature by a fraction of a second.
~ Rob Temple