Precision Quotes

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

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.

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.

Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision to avoid unpopular views from being criminalised.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.

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

A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so

The precision of the creator’s natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful

For every natural law inherent in creation, there is the creator’s precision

A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.

The precision required for life to exist cannot be fathomed as we know it

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.