Betsy Hodges Quotes

Precision matters, breh.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

I've made a career of being precise.

Exactitude is not truth.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

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

If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Craft is everything.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

If you don't get it right, what's the point?

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

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