Quotes about Precision

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. Votes: 4

Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described. Votes: 4

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. Votes: 4

Precision is not reality Votes: 3

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself. Votes: 3

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. Votes: 3

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. Votes: 3

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure. Votes: 3

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Votes: 3

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth. Votes: 3

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work. Votes: 3

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small. Votes: 3

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Votes: 3

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. Votes: 3

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether. Votes: 3

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. Votes: 3

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. Votes: 3

Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies. Votes: 3

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. Votes: 3

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration. Votes: 3

Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth. Votes: 3

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do. Votes: 3

A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization. Votes: 3

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Votes: 2

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. Votes: 2

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. Votes: 2

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. Votes: 2

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness. Votes: 2

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. Votes: 2

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier. Votes: 2

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. Votes: 2

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely. Votes: 2

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. Votes: 2

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end. Votes: 2

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others Votes: 1

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. Votes: 1

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. Votes: 1

Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. Votes: 1

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. Votes: 1

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things. Votes: 1

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. Votes: 1

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that. Votes: 1

Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them. Votes: 1

I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing. Votes: 1

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination. Votes: 1

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied. Votes: 1

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new. Votes: 1

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. Votes: 1

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. Votes: 1

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision. Votes: 1

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. Votes: 1

Dance must have a precision without fault. Votes: 0

Golf is a game of precision, not strength. Votes: 0

Kicked wide of the goal with such precision Votes: 0

Numerical precision is the very soul of science. Votes: 0

Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision Votes: 0

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; Votes: 0

A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach. Votes: 0

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. Votes: 0

That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues. Votes: 0

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision? Votes: 0

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. Votes: 0

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision. Votes: 0

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. Votes: 0

I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker. Votes: 0

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision. Votes: 0

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. Votes: 0

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. Votes: 0

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition. Votes: 0

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Votes: 0

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision. Votes: 0

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. Votes: 0

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. Votes: 0

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important. Votes: 0

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. Votes: 0

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past Votes: 0

Make your learning abundant and speak of it with precision, then you will speak of essentials. Votes: 0

There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet. Votes: 0

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive. Votes: 0

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer. Votes: 0

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ... Votes: 0

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. Votes: 0

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity Votes: 0

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. Votes: 0

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. Votes: 0

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. Votes: 0

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual. Votes: 0

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. Votes: 0

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions. Votes: 0

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. Votes: 0

Contrary to most people's beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision. Votes: 0

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal. Votes: 0

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. Votes: 0

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying. Votes: 0

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work. Votes: 0

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. Votes: 0

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is. Votes: 0

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. Votes: 0

In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. Votes: 0

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye. Votes: 0

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain. Votes: 0

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience. Votes: 0

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. Votes: 0

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. Votes: 0

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. Votes: 0

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer. Votes: 0

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Votes: 0

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision. Votes: 0

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision. Votes: 0

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw. Votes: 0

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings. Votes: 0

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. Votes: 0

In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing to emerge. Votes: 0

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign. Votes: 0

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace. Votes: 0

China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision. Votes: 0

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty Votes: 0

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision. Votes: 0

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision. Votes: 0

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation. Votes: 0

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy. Votes: 0

The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. Votes: 0

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? Votes: 0

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. Votes: 0

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. Votes: 0

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility. Votes: 0

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision. Votes: 0

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker Votes: 0

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. Votes: 0

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits Votes: 0

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity. Votes: 0

I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself. Votes: 0

We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects. Votes: 0

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. Votes: 0

I am not a bomber. I'm more about precision and being target-oriented. I have to rely on all parts of my game firing if I'm going to win. Votes: 0

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist. Votes: 0

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control. Votes: 0

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing. Votes: 0

In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination? Votes: 0

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision. Votes: 0

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate. Votes: 0

One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof. Votes: 0

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest. Votes: 0

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about. Votes: 0

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together. Votes: 0

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality. Votes: 0

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level. Votes: 0

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order. Votes: 0

An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming. Votes: 0

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision. Votes: 0

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll beproving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven. Votes: 0

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case. Votes: 0

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case. Votes: 0

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision. Votes: 0

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness Votes: 0

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision. Votes: 0

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired. Votes: 0

It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman. Votes: 0

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision. Votes: 0

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision. Votes: 0

The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death. Votes: 0

What makes iPhone 5 so unique is how it feels in your hand. The materials… the remarkable precision. Never before have we built a product with this extraordinarily level of fit and finish. Votes: 0

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision. Votes: 0

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for. Votes: 0

Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts. Votes: 0

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work. Votes: 0

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation. Votes: 0

I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision. Votes: 0

a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being Votes: 0

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts. Votes: 0

In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes. Votes: 0

You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes. Votes: 0

I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory. Votes: 0

The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals. Votes: 0

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. Votes: 0

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes. Votes: 0

The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact. Votes: 0

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules. Votes: 0

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement. Votes: 0

When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing. Votes: 0

When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them. Votes: 0

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement. Votes: 0

The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity. Votes: 0