Quotes About Precision

Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck.

Golf is life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life.

Quilters know all the angles.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.

Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner's temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel. They measure his penis. The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor.

everything shipshape

A second technician gauges Werner's eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. Werner's color is himmelblau, sky blue. To assess his hair color, the man snips a lock of hair from Werner's head and compares it to thirty or so other locks clipped to a board, arrayed darkest to lightest. "Schnee," the man mutters, and makes a notation. Snow. Werner's hair is lighter than the lightest color on the board.

It's only numbers, cadet…Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way

Cold demanded a sharper, simpler view of things: in those temperatures death hovered at the margins, offering clarity, providing precision. But it blurred things, too: the border between dreams and wakefulness, the way it pulled life from fingers and toes, and released them reluctantly, temporarily. The way the wind came, like news from another, more tenuous world, and stirred the trees.

In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed?

if you're going to shoot, shoot.

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to.

Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures.

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

I think I'm a good passer and can make plays, but there's definitely a knack to putting the puck in the net.

Every time I have a chance I'm going to make a pass to one of my players in practice. Every time I have a chance I'm going to clear the puck just to see how far I'm going to be able to shoot it.

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.