Best 46 quotes in «precision quotes» category

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

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

An aphorism is something that can't be said any other way.

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

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

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

But what words exactly did he use? People who aren't writers never describe things exactly.

Don't go in for the "yellowish" if what you need is "yellow". The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the accuracy of your demand. Never settle for the less; Go for the exact thing!

For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator’s precision

el desconocimiento generalizado acerca de la Filosofía se debe a que nunca ha sido definida con precisión.

How very small she seemed, tucked in the corner of the library with her knees drawn up. For the past hour and a half, she had been a commanding figure, strung tight with energy, her gaze stern and steely. She had worked in millimeters, doing tiny, crucial things to veins and cellular tissue with astonishing precision. Although West knew nothing about surgery, he'd understood that he was witnessing someone perform with rare skill. Now, in her exhaustion, the brilliant surgeon resembled an anxious schoolgirl who had taken a wrong turn on the way home. West liked her a great deal. In fact, he was rather sorry now that he'd kept shrugging off Helen's efforts to introduce them. He'd envisioned the female doctor as a severe matron, probably hostile toward men, and Helen's assurances that Dr. Gibson was quite pretty hadn't been at all convincing. Helen, with her completely unjustified affection for humanity, loved to overestimate people. But Garrett Gibson was more than pretty. She was riveting. An intelligent, accomplished woman with an elusive quality... a suggestion of hidden tenderness... that intrigued him.

Civility is important, even though bitchiness is expedient.

If you are perfect apart from your mistakes, you are complete else if you are perfect apart from your precision, you are whole

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]

Precision can be suffocating

The engineering context of precision where precision is not necessary indicates the existence of sophisticated tools. These have not been found in the archaeological record, but the existence of them must be taken into account when we consider the mountain of circumstantial evidence to support their use. In the case of the Serapeum, the list of tools and instruments that are necessary to create the granite boxes has grown. We can say with certainty that exact measuring instruments existed, for this work and the work at Luxor and Karnak could not have been accomplished without them. They are the most important and necessary tools for such work. The wooden squares, plumb bobs, and alignment instruments on display in the Luxor and Cairo Museums are incapable of giving even the most talented craftsman the information he needs to know that his work has achieved this kind of accuracy. Even if these boxes and monuments were crafted today with modern tools, such instruments are limited in what they can measure--and they most certainly cannot explain the precision and geometry [on display].

How you do the little things is how you do everything.

Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist (The Guardian, 19 February 2013)

The precision in these artifacts is irrefutable. Even if we ignore the question of how they were produced, we are still faced with the question of why such precision was needed. Revelation of new data invariably raises new questions. In this case it is understandable for skeptics to ask, "Where are the machines?" But machines are tools, and the question should be applied universally and can be asked of anyone who believes other methods may have been used. The truth is that no tools have been found to explain any theory on how the pyramids were built or the granite boxes were cut. More than eighty pyramids have been discovered in Egypt, and the tools that built them have never been found. Even if we accepted the notion that copper tools are capable of producing these incredible artifacts, the few copper implements that have been uncovered do not represent the number of such tools that would have been used if every stonemason who is supposed to have worked on the pyramids at just the Giza site owned one or two. In the Great Pyramid alone there are an estimated 2,300,000 blocks of stone, both limestone and granite, weighing between two-and-one-half tons and seventy tons each. That is a mountain of evidence, and there are no tools surviving to explain even this one pyramid's creation.

The precision of the creator’s natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful

The precision required for life to exist cannot be fathomed as we know it

. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight

When I ask him if he thinks there's a moral to his story, he says he's sure there must be, but doesn't know exactly what it is. "Maybe," he says after a short pause, "it's that this world is full of lizards, and even though there's nothing we can do about it, it is always helpful to find out how big they are.

You must become a free man so that you have “Sidik Paningal; Java” (lucidity and precision of sight). Later, you achieve the peak of detachment of sight (Ma’rifat), where you see something to the horizon with great clarity. Do not take another step before you are certain that the path you take is the right one. Failure is another matter; what matters is precision.

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?

With such a convincing collection of artifacts that prove the existence of precision machinery in ancient Egypt, the idea that the Great Pyramid was built by an advanced civilization that inhabited the Earth thousands of years ago becomes more admissible. I am not proposing that this civilization was more advanced technologically than ours on all levels, but it does appear that as far as masonry work and construction are concerned they were exceeding current capabilities and specifications.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

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

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

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.

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

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

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

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

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.