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Quotes About Precise

We certainly do need a foundation in critical thinking and in analytical and deductive reasoning in order to understand the world and not be totally lost or overwhelmed by it. So thinking — precise, keen, critical thinking — is an extremely important faculty we need to develop, refine, and
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
He was the solitary lucid spectator of a multiform, momentaneous, and almost unbearably precise world.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for them have always told them that they were, without necessarily meaning by it anything precise.
~ Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
~ Adolf Loos
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
~ Victoria Beckham
I'm a maniacal perfectionist.
~ Martha Stewart
Lucy is such a perfectionist.
~ Desi Arnaz
I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
~ Nate Parker
I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.
~ Marc Jacobs
I like being organized and super particular.
~ Rob Zombie
He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote enhanced when he meant increased. He was a prick.
~ Joseph Heller
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
~ Walter Pater
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
~ Warren Buffett
I was not thinking about the world. I was not thinking about history. I was thinking about my body's small, precise, limited, hungry movement forward into the future that seemed at every instant on the verge of being shut down.
~ Wayne Koestenbaum
So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually in ourselves, by providing a richer and more precise language to discuss them. In at least some cases, an accurate diagnosis may suggest an intervention to limit the damage that bad judgments and choices often cause.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Before I could speak, the queen said, "A good horoscope is usually written in Latin. Is that not true, Adept Durwin?" I thought I was saved. "The best ones certainly are, Your Grace." "Learned, complicated Latin?" "Precise, technical Latin, drawing subtle conclusions from obscure facts.
~ Dave Duncan
Stress acclimatization is about measuring precise doses of stress followed by waves of recovery and then repeating these cycles very specifically. There must be time for adaptation to take place and there must be enough training, repeated over time, to help it stick as well as reinforcing the conditioning.
~ Dave Grossman
The pressure to define civil war is often inversely related to the political stakes for offering such a definition: the higher the pressure to be precise, the greater the chance that exactitude will itself be a source of political contention.
~ David Armitage
ANTICIPATE CONTINUOUSLY. NOW PRECISELY PRE-POSITION MYSELF FIRST FOR SAFETY, THEN FOR TRACTION AND THEN FOR THE ABSOLUTE CLEAREST VIEW OF THE VANISHING POINT.
~ James Ford
The car, is the other connection to the outside world, but to be precise it connects the inhabitants to the inside of the car, not to the outside world per se. The outside world is only an element for moving through, as submarines move through water.
~ James Howard Kunstler
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
~ James K. Polk
Well, anyway, that's it, we just ran out of time cause I have to be done at 5.40 right now, and it is exactly 5.40.
~ James Rolfe
It is misfortune of small precise men to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
~ Agatha Christie