Precise Quotes
Precise Quote of the day
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans, it's more precise to say Republicanism is part of our DNA.
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.
I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
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.
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.
The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.
Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.
The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.
The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
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.
I can give a precise day when Christ came to me and began to transform my life with his power and love.
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.
A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!