Quotes About Precision

In practice, language is always more or less vague, so that what we assert is never quite precise.

Una frontera indefinida no es frontera en absoluto.

She'd be absolutely certain before she told

Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with.

En hij kan het beste te werk gaan zoals bekwame boogschutters, die wanneer ze het doel dat ze willen raken te ver weg achten, omdat ze weten wat de kracht van hun boog is, het mikpunt veel hoger nemen dan het doelwit, niet om met hun pijl zo hoog te komen, maar om met behulp van dat hoge mikpunt hun doel te kunnen bereiken.

The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I

We human creatures can make watches and clocks and sensitive timing devices, but we don't understand what we're timing.

Donna. Miniatures

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random.

A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Any movement of the pyramid will cause it to topple over. Underneath the pyramid is a $100 bill. How do you remove the bill without disturbing the pyramid?

Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly 'finished' and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions

Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

Time is an illusion, timing is an art.

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Decided, commit, act, succeed, repeat. The one thing that all the greats have in common is they sweat the small stuff and they pay very close attention to every detail.

Golf sits in that beautiful junction between perfection and frustration.

Efforts + Proper Timing = Success

The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt.

Practice is the golden bullet for hitting the target of excellence.

Simple works, complex fails.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.