Precision Quotes

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Precision is not reality

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.

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

Dance must have a precision without fault.

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

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 hell is was about.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

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 reality of that thing.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.

Kicked wide of the goal with such precision

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.

What makes iPhone 5 so unique is how it feels in your hand. The materials… the remarkable precision. Never before have we built a product with this extraordinarily level of fit and finish.

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

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, and imagination of a high order.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.