Precision Quotes - Page 7

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Max Weber

Unity, Administration, Cost

Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to anything of our earthly world that I have experienced so far. I marvel at the intellect and attention to detail, the precision manifested by the workings of this great and often unseen force of which we are all a part.

Rosemary Altea

Understanding, Unseen, Details

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The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

Hugh Ross

Design, Scary, Degrees

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Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

F. R. Leavis

Mean, Quality, Experience

1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Eye, Expression

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With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.

Charles Tilly

Thinking, Hands, Political

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A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

R. S. Thomas

Moving, Writing, Eye

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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

Percival Lowell

Errors, Hands, Opposites

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

Kenneth Lee Pike

Degrees, Tools, Adequate

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Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Orchestra, Layers, Clarity

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When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

Terry Gilliam

Song, Teaching, Good Luck

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Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Jim Stanford

Details, Communism, Modern

Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it.

Julie Powell

Journey, Perfection, Stronger

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An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.

Harlan Mills

Errors, People, Design

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See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Cyndi Lee

Practice, Healthy, Curiosity

Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.24, Penguin

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You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.

Leon Daudet

Opening Up, Ducks, Hands

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It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

Barry S. Strauss

Sports, Intelligent, Sea

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Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Grateful, Government, Iraq

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Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

Antoine Lavoisier

Science, Data, Body

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In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise.

B. B. Warfield

Fall, Work Out, Events

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Work is already underway today on creating unique high-precision weapons systems and manoeuvrable combat units that will have an unpredictable flight trajectory for the potential opponent. Along with the means for overcoming anti-missile defences that we already have, these new types of arms will enable us to maintain what is definitely one of the most important guarantees of lasting peace, namely, the strategic balance of forces.

Vladimir Putin

Mean, Unique, Creating

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The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

Margaret Thatcher

Impact, Numbers, Principles

Margaret Thatcher (2017). “Statecraft”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

David Attenborough

Bird, World, Speed

"The Life of Birds". Documentary, (1998 - ).

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Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

Christopher Hitchens

Troops, Bombs, Movement

Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5066, NYU Press

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A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

Paul Klee

Expression, Quality, Fairy

Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”

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