Precision Quotes - Page 6

• All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Boxing, Endurance, Rowdy

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• Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

  Charles Gounod

  Limits, Breathe, Elegance

  Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”

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• Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

  Salvador Dali

  Real, Madmen, Organized

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 17, 1964.

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• If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

  Rebecca West

  Peace, Taken, Marine

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.442, Open Road Media

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• Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.

  Charles Negre

  Real, Character, Giving

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• A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Desire, Doe

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.420, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.

  Judith Martin

  Father, Party, Important

  Judith Martin (1999). “Miss Manners on Weddings”, Crown

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• All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

  Bernd Becher

  Photography, Eye, Turns

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• I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

  John Lennon

  Thinking, Japan, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Humility, Support

  Hugh Ross (2010). “Why the Universe Is the Way It Is”, p.41, Baker Books

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• So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

  Charlie Munger

  Ethos, Physics, Economics

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• A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.

  Steven Sinofsky

  Fingers, Approach, Mice

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Texas, Musician, Groups

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• The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

  Paul Ormerod

  Air, Temptation, Use

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• What is this world?--A term which men have got,
  To signify not one in ten knows what;
  A term, which with no more precision passes
  To point out herds of men than herds of asses;
  In common use no more it means, we find,
  Than many fools in same opinions joined.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Men, Use

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.61

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• What is revolutionary today is that we're using precision-guided munitions. And instead of building individual weapons, we are building an industry and a philosophy, the culture of precision. You saw Desert Storm. Precision works.

  George Friedman

  Philosophy, Storm, Culture

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.

  Charles Negre

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?

  Morgan Freeman

  Crazy, Our World, Design

  "Morgan Freeman Takes You 'Through The Wormhole'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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• ..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

  Ivan Klíma

  Desire, Degrees, Obsession

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• I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Strong, Believe, Swings

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• When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.

  John McCain

  Children, War, Airplane

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

  Marilyn French

  Art, Waiting, Survival

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

  Louise Bogan

  Hair, Intuition, Fiction

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Cowboy, Female, Sailor

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.110, Penguin

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