Quotes about Precision

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

Whatever you do, do it well.

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

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

I am well aware that objects are nearer than they appear and should be handled with care. These

That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…

He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote enhanced when he meant increased. He was a prick.

I think a lot of our bad habits are simply the result of being in too big a hurry to do a thing right to start with.