Jennifer Egan Quotes

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

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

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

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Precision matters, breh.

I shoot the ball so well that sometimes you fall in love with it and think it'll get you out of certain situations.

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

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

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Rydstrom: "To get it right this time."

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.