Quotes About Precision

I'm too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

I am a programmer.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

I like things in their proper places.

I am a control freak. I want everything to be prim and proper.

If you're gonna do a job, do it properly.

I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

You have to defend properly.

Two birdies and a lot of bogeys doesn't really help. I say if you're going to do it, do it properly and be dreadful on all fronts.

If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.

You have to know how to move properly. A lot of these heavyweights go out there and they're fighting like it's a street fight. They're trying to win in the first 30 seconds.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.

Master of the bow-string's deadly music!

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.