Quotes About Precise

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Deep-frying properly requires you to keep the oil at a precise temperature range depending on the food. If you're frying in more than an inch of oil you really should invest in a deep-fat thermometer so you can monitor the temperature and know when to adjust the heat.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

I am a very thorough person.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

the rational treatment of any subject ought to take its start from definition, that readers may understand what the author is writing about.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless.

It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake.

I fell in love with Peter at that precise instant. I don't suppose many other women know the exact moment the rest of their lives began.

The most important lesson I can share about brand marketing is this: you definitely, certainly, and surely don't have enough time and money to build a brand for everyone. You can't. Don't try. Be specific. Be very specific.

The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to look at reality and think logically and precisely about what we see. The key ingredient is to have the courage to face inconsistencies between what we see and deduce and the way things are done. This challenging of basic assumptions is essential to breakthroughs.

Benedick found irony in his knowledge that the symbiont Cynric herself had created-and inoculated into Benedick by her own hand-was the very thing that allowed Benedick to remember her murder so precisely.

Legends, myths, miracles, and symbols: a far cry from the practical and precise hardheaded world Scotland and the Scots had inhabited since the Act of Union.

I'm rarely wrong.

I'm pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that's a habit built maybe from me being OCD.

Semantics matters. Because the word cause is commonly taken to mean direct cause, climate scientists, trying to be precise, have too often shied away from attributing causation of a particular hurricane, drought, or fire to global warming.

I'm very direct, I don't believe in wasting time, in wasting words.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

I'm very particular but very thrifty at the same time.