Precise Quotes

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.

On cannot be precise, and still be true.

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is or not.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

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?

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

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