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Quotes About Precise

he never says anything off the top of his head
~ Alice Walker
They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws.
~ Edward Dolnick
It is all very beautiful and magical here---a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.
~ Ansel Adams
In brief, images were advantageous even if an organism were not conscious of the images formed within it. The organism would not yet be capable of subjectivity and would be unable to inspect the images in its own mind, but still the images could automatically guide the execution of a movement; the movement would be more precise in terms of its target and succeed rather than fail.
~ António R. Damásio
It would have been intended as a broad framework to guide future military activity, if not as a precisely worked-out blueprint.
~ Anthony Everitt
From my experience, law firms are always quiet places. Maybe it's because they make words so expensive that they tend to use them sparingly among themselves.
~ Anthony Horowitz
My work is formal, not based on psychology.
~ Robert Wilson
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
~ Frank Herbert
Una frontera indefinida no es frontera en absoluto.
~ Ludwing Wittgenstein
Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems (as in a not particularly scary movie) to be a ghostly floating head
~ Andrew Sean Greer
meetings. (There are few public documents more indiscreet than proxy statements, in which the precise private stockholdings of directors must be listed.)
~ John Brooks
There is, as we shall see, a real and precise difference between the number zero and the concept of a set that posesses no members - the null, or empty set. Indeed, the second idea, pointless as it sounds, turns out to be by far the most fruitful of the two. From it, all of the rest of mathematics can be created step by step.
~ John D. Barrow
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
~ James Russell Lowell
Therapists will have much more impact when they are able to conceptualize or discern more precisely what this client's core problem really is, how it came about developmentally, and how it is being played out and causing symptoms and problems in his current life.
~ Edward Teyber
Life is a breathing art; colour it with extra caution for precise colours and eyes captivating beauty.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
On the day of human rights, I dare to say that since 1948, the United Nations fail, to adopt the universal solidification of human rights notion within its precise context of a free and equal world. Indeed, human exists; however, not the rights yet.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Following the general term with specifics can serve the function of making doubly sure that the broad (and intended-to-be-broad) general term is taken to include the specifics.
~ Antonin Scalia
I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.
~ Lydia Millet
I was fascinated by the powerful yet precise dance performances of K-pop. I loved Rain and 2NE1.
~ Momo Hirai
When I was growing up, golf was the geeky sport. No one really wanted to be associated with it.
~ Graham DeLaet
Computers can deliver nuclear explosions to precisely anywhere on earth. A lightning bolt is made entirely of error.
~ Galway Kinnell
I'm a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense.
~ Wendy Williams
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
~ Christopher Alexander
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
~ Friedrich August von Hayek