Precise Quotes

390 quotes by 349 authors

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those… — Charles Babbage
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. — Franklin P. Adams
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do… — Henry Ward Beecher
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's… — Annie Besant
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. — Theodor Adorno
I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way. — Christina Aguilera
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring… — Warren Buffett
Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. — Nicolas Cage
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of… — Christopher Alexander
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling
Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is… — Esther Hicks
Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we… — Chogyam Trungpa
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. — Oscar Wilde
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. — John B. S. Haldane
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it… — Camille Pissarro
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. — Paul Valery

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