Quotes About Precision

For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.

You used to be taught to let the ball go as far as possible and then drop it on the runner, whereas now it might be even more advantageous to direct the ball in front of the bag and get the guy on the leg.

When you shoot for a film, mistakes become very easy to manage. If you fumble, a retake can mend it all. You always have another chance , whereas when you work on the stage, you have to be extremely careful. There is no second chance as such.

I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You'd be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.

More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.

Whether it's with my engineers in the team, my home life, or my friends, I don't like things to get complicated - and one good example would be the steering wheel in my Mercedes Formula 1 car.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.

When you use the whip, it makes the loudest crack. It's a very, very difficult weapon to use.

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

My game is kind of built around hitting shots - that's what I take pride in, and it's what separates myself from other guys.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That's my No. 1 priority.

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.

As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

A lot of dance producers aren't really musical, they don't care much about detail.