Precision, Exactitude Quotes

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

I’d rather be slow and right, than be fast and dead.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

BioRhythm was a perfect fit for me, as I can relate to the company's attention to detail when producing its products to a very dedicated fan base. Detail is a key to my success on the football field.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

God is in the details.

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.

I spent the entire morning inserting a comma; I spent the whole afternoon removing it again.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

I'm pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that's a habit built maybe from me being OCD.

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.