Precise Quotes

• Know what you are talking about.

  Pope John Paul II

  Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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• [Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

  Carl Sagan

  Heart, Science, Kepler

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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

  Henri Matisse

  Ideas, Drawing, Precision

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience something that you wish to heal, create, or experience in order to be who you really are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 17, 2010

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• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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• There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

  John von Neumann

  Talking, Programming, Knows

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• While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  "Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is 'Technically' Bisexual" by Gena Kaufman, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Confusion, Perspective

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• 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Father, Guy, Would Be

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ignorance, Giving, Facts

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• I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Action, Achieve

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, People, Age

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• Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Perfect, Tools

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories”, p.161

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• Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Mean, Bears

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Definitions

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• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

  Theodor Adorno

  Technology, Men, Gestures

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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• I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

  Christina Aguilera

  Needs, Way, Aggression

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• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  Charles Babbage

  Differences, Tools, Machines

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.12

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• I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Order, People

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.

  Pablo Larrain

  Brother, Ideas, Exactly Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Reality, Joy

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• This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

  Dan Rather

  Art, Mistake, Blow

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Funny, Errors, Precision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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