Precise Quotes

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WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it. — Douglas Adams
Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have… — Alexis de Tocqueville
My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise… — Mario Testino
Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it… — Henry Louis Gates
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine. — Meredith Monk
I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving… — Jose Padilha
There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise,… — Frederick Lenz
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite… — Naomi Klein
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is… — Bertrand Russell
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to… — Albert Einstein
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the… — Leo Tolstoy
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson
On cannot be precise, and still be true. — Marc Chagall
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape… — Martha Graham
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and… — Walter Pater
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much… — Chogyam Trungpa
Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful… — Bobby Knight
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man… — Jacques Lipchitz
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the… — Richard Davidson

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