Precise Quotes

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

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

History provides no precise guidelines.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

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.

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

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

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next phase of your evolution. Do what's necessary to run into that person.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.

Literally it’s the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don’t want to share your hoogencogles with.

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.