Precise Quotes · Page 3

Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.

— Susanna Tamaro

The precise statement of any problem is the most important step in its solution.

— Ed Bliss

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

— Richard P. Feynman

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

— Andre Gide

“A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.”

— Jeanette Winterson

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

— Susanna Clarke

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

— Eric Hoffer

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way…

— Michael Nesmith

If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

— Adam Cohen

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

— Christian Louboutin

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about…

— Brassai

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

— Robin Sharma

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

— Adolf Loos

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all…

— James Randi

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In…

— Henry Louis Gates

My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in…

— Mario Testino

At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in…

— Alberto Manguel

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks…

— Alain de Botton

Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering…

— Joyce Carol Oates

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated…

— Daniel Hannan

Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less,…

— Robert Stawell Ball

Harvard graduates just cannot shake the idea that they know better than everyone else what's best for us and that they're capable…

— Ann Coulter

The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This…

— Peter Drucker

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is…

— Carlos Castaneda

While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy…

— Bertrand Russell

Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place…

— Louis Althusser

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle…

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of…

— Bob Hoover

A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is…

— George Saunders

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides,…

— Linus Pauling

Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and…

— Frances Ridley Havergal

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

— Tom Stoppard

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.”

— Mark Lawrence

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

— Doug Scott

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

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

— Dan Quayle

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

— Karen Marie Moning

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

— William Thurston