Precision Quotes - Page 3

• To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

  Henri Matisse

  Ideas, Drawing, Draws

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

  Joseph Heller

  Enemy, Might, Matter

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Desire, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 09, 2015

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

  Frank Herbert

  Repeats, Monotonous, Foolishness

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.160, Penguin

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• And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Campaigns, Care

  "At the Pentagon". Donald Rumsfeld's speech at the news conference on the collapse of Saddam Hussein's government, the remaining resistance in Iraq and other subjects at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, www.nytimes.com. April 10, 2003.

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• My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Father, Hammers, Tools

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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

  Harold Taylor

  Education, Important, Educate

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• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Order, Perfect, Events

  "Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

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• Kicked wide of the goal with such precision

  Des Lynam

  Soccer, Goal, Wide

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• 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.

  Richard A. Falk

  Thinking, Views, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Requirements, Matter, Mass

  "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 120, 1931.

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• Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

  Peter Abelard

  Use, Precise

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• Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

  William Safire

  Color, Grace, Style

  William Safire (2011). “Quoth the Maven: More on Language from William Safire”, p.541, Random House

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• The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.

  Charles R. Morris

  Games, Names, Important

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Technology, Information, Computer

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• I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's a precision process. Doing it on stage would be, I think, terrifying. Doing it on film has its own difficulties, because film is not conducive to spontaneity. You might have a run through and get a few chuckles at eight o'clock in the morning, but you don't keep laughing at the same thing all day long.

  Colin Firth

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

  Jacques Barzun

  Historical, Example, Details

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part IV, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.

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• I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Track, Missing

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• Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Girl, Baby, Years

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

  Alexis Arguello

  Fire, Two, Opponents

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

  Roland Barthes

  Technique, Cameras, Sound

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• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dedication, Order

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• If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

  Victor Hugo

  Poverty, Chance, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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