Quotes About Precision

While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

It's one of the things that I tend to do, make the right decision, right time, and get the right reactions and capitalize on it.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

I have a tendency to overcut my movies.

For me, CG tends to feel watered down and it becomes cold because it's so perfect.

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

I do everything right-handed - football, tennis, darts and golf - except for snooker.

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.

Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

It is a bowler's skill that gets him wickets in Tests.