Quotes About Precision

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

aerodrome" but, rather, "airfield"; not "aeroplane" but "aircraft." Churchill was particularly insistent that ministers compose memoranda with brevity and limit their length to one page or less. "It is slothful not to compress your thoughts," he said. Such precise and demanding communication installed at all levels a new sense of responsibility for events, and dispelled the fustiness of routine ministerial work.

One cannot possibly get accurate bombing on a selected target in this way.

Turn the light on so your aim is better, he said mildly. All you did was waste a full beer.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him.

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The

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After all if I'm trying to write books without any extra words I might as well stick to it.

His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.

Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.

And no one knows a show like its stage manager.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

The hand that stretches the bow must open like a child's hand opens. What sometimes hinders the precision of the shot is the archer's over-active will. He thinks: What I fail to do will not be done, and that's not quite how things work. Man should always act, but he must also let other forces of the universe act in their own due time.

He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.

Science isn't a book of explanations. It's a process. A process we're continuing to refine and make more precise. Despite setbacks and wrong turns, nobody has ever seriously said the problem with science was its demand for more precision and deeper understanding.

How do I shoot?" "Your finger through there. Feel that? But you only pull if you're sure that everything's right." "Why?" "Because you can't take it back." She