Precision Quotes

• 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, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Responsibility, Compassion, Attention

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.51, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Funny, Errors, Dangerous

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

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

  Bruno Walter

  Technique, Doe, Concentrating

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• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Decision, Style

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Truth, Mind

  "Time to rise to the challenge of social impact measurement" by Jeremy Nicholls, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2013.

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Landscape, Extinction, Next

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• A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Writing, Should Have

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• But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Work, Simple, Dedication

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• Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

  William Blake

  Ideas, Sublime, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.646, Univ of California Press

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

  Henri Matisse

  Ideas, Drawing, Draws

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

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• Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

  Robert Bresson

  Masters, Instruments

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.9, New York Review of Books

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Space, Extensions

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.142, Shambhala Publications

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

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Customers, Dissatisfaction

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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

  Jeff Cooper

  Self Defense, Ifs

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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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• Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Movement, Timing

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• Precision is not reality

  Henri Matisse

  Reality

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• We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.

  Steven Pinker

  Vocabulary, Brain, Events

  Steven Pinker (2010). “The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Education, Math, Soul

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Aristotle

  Men, Class, Looks

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

  Leo Ornstein

  Military, People, Exciting

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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

  Igor Stravinsky

  Freedom, Constraints, Constrain

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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

  Italo Calvino

  Love, Matter, Pleasure

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Food, Dancing

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

  Milan Kundera

  Reality, Ideas, Gaps

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

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