With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is… — Amari Cooper Copy Share Image
The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
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