Quotes about Precision

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Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.