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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Self, Execution, Constraints

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Art, Lying

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

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• I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Focus, Next Level, Levels

  "An Interview with the Artist: Jacob Hashimoto". Interview with Pari Ehsan, www.paridust.com. September 26, 2014.

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

  Steven Pinker

  Vocabulary, Brain, Events

  Steven Pinker (2010). “The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.

  Alexis Arguello

  Beautiful, Couple, Believe

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• I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

  Conrad Veidt

  Thinking, Order, Recycling

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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

  Igor Stravinsky

  Freedom, Constraints, Constrain

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Food, Dancing

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.

  Michael Schudson

  Powerful, Dark, Agency

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.13, Routledge

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• The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Vision, Seeing, Uniqueness

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• The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Order, Data, Giving

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Philosophy, Healing, Men

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• Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Memories, Distance

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• In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

  Italo Calvino

  Love, Matter, Pleasure

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• If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Views, Years

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Horse, Small Numbers, Trying

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• I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Writing, Fishing

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• It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

  Max Planck

  Unlimited

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Eye, Hands, Play

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• Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

  Sebastian Smee

  Photography, Strangeness

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• The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

  William S. Burroughs

  Skills, Way, Juxtaposition

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• Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games

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• I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.

  Thomas A. Edison

  God, Infinite Intelligence, World

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• The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

  Martin Puryear

  Hands, People, Together

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• My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is served, except when a can won't open. That's the way she is: fine unless something goes wrong and that minor obstacle becomes a huge wall she can't scale. She becomes helpless whenever things don't go smoothly, or exactly as she imagined them.

  Gregory Galloway

  Mother, Wall, Trying

  Gregory Galloway (2006). “As Simple as Snow”, p.35, Penguin

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