Precision Quotes

194 quotes by 179 authors

Suddenly Po shot into the courtyard from the north vestibule whooping. Katsa, seeing him, broke into a run and they tore at each other through… — Kristin Cashore
Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potterâ€™s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn â€”… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be… — George Orwell
Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental… — Henepola Gunaratana
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and… — Ben Goldacre
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an… — Norman Foster
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly… — Nikola Tesla
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions. — David Suzuki
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. — Helen Vendler
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. — Albert Murray
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time,… — Linn Ullmann
To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed,… — James Stephens
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring… — Simon Schama
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to… — Maurice Druon
When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for… — John Battelle
I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the… — Suzi Quatro
Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those. — Luka Sulic
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second… — James Gleick
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of… — Barry Ritholtz
Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be… — Fabiola Gianotti

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