Precision Quotes

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.
Thomas A. Edison

Everything, Fact, Behind

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Decision, Thought

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.
Bertrand Russell

Start, Questions, Achieve

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White

Act, Fall, Victim

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Donald Rumsfeld

Small, Dangerous, Lack

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.
Igor Stravinsky

Self, Execution, Constraint

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett

Next, Landscape, Extinction

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.
Shaun White

Great, Mind, Off

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov

Writer, Poet, Scientist

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard

Away, Takes, Seeing

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino

Love, Matter, Pleasure

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.
Niklaus Wirth

Work, Simple, Through

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.
Ice Cube

Love, Art, Cool

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
Shawn Johnson

Everything, Gymnastics, Timing

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
Damian Lewis

Fun, Yourself, Emotional

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.
Alexis Arguello

Beautiful, Short, Able

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.
Gail Simmons

Work, Single, Small

I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.
Alexis Arguello

Power, Fire, Two

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Kenneth L. Pike

Language, Situation, Degree

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.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Give, Order, Greater

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
Lionel Messi

Nothing, Football, Mean

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.
David Antin

While, Common, Taste

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.
Eric Ripert

Live, Mind, Past

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Used, Clarity

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.
Simon Pegg

Rather, Instinct, Random

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

Put, Universe, Theory

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.
Owen Hart

Top, Land, Movement

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.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Government, Grateful, American

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

Words, Old, Used

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.
Leo Ornstein

Person, Down, Whole

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