Precise Quotes

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You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no… — Kimon Nicolaides
As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months.… — Gaspard Ulliel
The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way. — Gaspard Ulliel
Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next… — Rob Brezsny
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's… — Brian Greene
When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No… — J. Cole
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to… — Rita Dove
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding.… — Umberto Eco
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between… — Vera Farmiga
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits… — Joshua Foer
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really… — Neil Patrick Harris
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. — Eric Hoffer
I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very… — Marc Jacobs
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you… — Anne Lamott

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