Precision Quotes · Page 3

Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.

— Jess Phillips

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

— Jeff Cooper

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

— Steven Sinofsky

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Jennifer Egan

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

— Italo Calvino

“Victory does not require ego, just precision.”

— Iain A. Melchizedek

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

— William Blake

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is…

— Helen Vendler

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly.…

— David Attenborough

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

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

— David Whyte

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

— Bernd Becher

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in…

— Eric Ripert

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven,…

— Maurice Ravel

The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until…

— Charles R. Morris

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and…

— Brian Greene

Anyone who ever witnessed Ueli Steck flying up the Eigerwand would know that he was always in control of his actions. He…

— Reinhold Messner

If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work…

— Walter B. Pitkin

Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our…

— James Arthur

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume.…

— Rob Lowe

[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were…

— Daphne du Maurier

I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less…

— Enric Sala

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the…

— Pema Chodron

Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be…

— Colin Wilson

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

— Bertrand Russell

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,…

— Patrick Henry

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;…

— Mark Twain

Suddenly Po shot into the courtyard from the north vestibule whooping. Katsa, seeing him, broke into a run and they tore at…

— Kristin Cashore

My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the…

— Gregory Galloway

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

— Sebastian Smee

Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

— Suze Orman

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Richard Kadrey

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

— Dan Quayle

If you want to play at Arsenal you need to be top, top, you need precision.

— Freddie Ljungberg

Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.

— Betsy Hodges

“He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.”

— Michael Wolff