Quotes About Precision

On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day.

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

I've never thought of myself as having that much of a temper. But it's true that I can't stand it when things are not done properly. When that happens, I cannot control my reaction.

The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.

In my eyes, baking and pastry-making is like a science - all the measuring of quantities and temperatures.

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

I like to get the ball on the ground, make good plays and move the ball around the pitch quickly at a good tempo.

Misty 2" was Bill Douglass, the operations officer and a laconic fellow who became famous for consistently neglecting marking rockets in favor of pointing the snout of his F-100 at a AAA battery and boring in with guns chattering.

A pantherish twist and shift of his body avoided the blundering rush of two yellow swordsmen, and the blade of one missing its objective, was sheathed in the breast of the other. A

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Be repetitive and concrete. The things you say over and over have the most impact if they specify what to do and when to do it.

People often indiscriminately use absolutes in their utterances: every, everyone, everything, all, always, never, no one, nothing. Rarely are these absolute terms justified.

Careful and clear thinking requires a certain rigor; it is a skill, and, like all skills, it requires training, practice, and vigilance.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

a feat which is not unlike tryin' to hold a large beach ball under water while doin' needlepoint

It was typical George Stout: detailed, timely, and understated. Here was a man that was never hurried. Who was careful. Punctual. Precise. An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.