I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal. — Paul Parker Copy Share Image
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I remember taking a timer into a pastry exam at college, and the examiner had never seen that before, but I was… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a great amount of precision within each individual's technique and role in the play. When you put 22 of them… — Brendan Daly Copy Share Image
Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency;… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
“How very small she seemed, tucked in the corner of the library with her knees drawn up. For the past hour and… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“The most important attribute of a customer value proposition is its precision: how perfectly it nails the customer job to be done—and… — Mark W. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and… — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
The Rock is the Rock, you know? He's the ultimate athlete, the professional man with precision. And you want precision from a… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image