Quotes About Precision

You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.

Communications can be precise and exacting while still being tragically wrong.

I do not 'gallivant,' Truzenzuzex commented primly. I plan in haste.

The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots.

Child, you know nothing about war. You think it's big and it's loud and it's good versus evil. It's not. War is a delicate thing: it requires precision. It requires timing.

There are people who have the ability to wake up a minute or even seconds before their alarm goes off or to know what time theyve woken up without even looking at a clock. Now, thank God, I dont have to get up in the mornings but the potential of the body to keep such accurate time is remarkable.

Quo enim melius rem aliquam concipimus, eo magis determinati sumus ad eam unico modo exprimendam.

Objectivity is obsessed with exactness and tends to be rather intolerant of deviation, almost

You don't smack the water with your paddle if you wish to catch fish.

Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.

All sports are games of inches.

God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time.

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have.

Big Things Happen When You Do the Little Things Right

Simon drove as if he knew something about physics that Einstein hadn't thought of and God never intended. If nature abhorred a vacuum, Simon positively loathed one, and rushed to fill in the tiniest gap in the heavy flow of speeding traffic. He passed on the right, left, center, and all variations in between, and the Keble responded as if involved in some kind of blood compact with its human master.

because I want to discover where, precisely, it may be wrong and, if possible, to repair the defect.

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

like a tank following a sports car through a slalom course.

Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.