Precision Quotes
194 quotes by 179 authors
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Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.
— Tupac Shakur
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The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures…
— Fritz Reiner
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I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a…
— Sol Stein
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While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and…
— David Antin
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as…
— Zadie Smith
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If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation…
— Oskar Schlemmer
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If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.â€Â You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and…
— Napoleon Hill
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I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision,…
— Anthony Hecht
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I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
— Gil Kane
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When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying…
— Craig Claiborne
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It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless…
— Samuel J. Tilden
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A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how,…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
— Sebastian Smee
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She…
— Miroslav Penkov
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The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right…
— Paul K. Chappell
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Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that…
— Milan Kundera
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Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years'…
— William Banting
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Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
— David Lloyd George
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are…
— Michael Schudson
Who Wrote These Precision Quotes
179 authors contributed a total of 194 Precision Quotes, led by these top contributors: