My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine. — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones… — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will… — Tamara de Lempicka Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and… — Constantine Manos Copy Share Image
[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent'… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
“Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.' — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the… — Constantine Manos Copy Share Image
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. — Steven Herrick Copy Share Image
There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming. — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image