Precision Quotes

194 quotes by 179 authors

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled… — Jay Griffiths
The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood… — Jay Griffiths
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in… — Thomas George Bonney
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work. — Gil Kane
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
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can… — Jean Lorrain
Dance must have a precision without fault. — Arielle Dombasle
A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The… — Gavin de Beer
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
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker — Adolf Hitler
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. — Yves Klein
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the… — Eric Fischl
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce… — Luther Burbank
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us. — Gary Lutz
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical… — Girl Talk
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. — Brian Greene
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a… — Brian Greene

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