Quotes about Precision
Be quick - but don't hurry.
— John Wooden
If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?
— John Wooden
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
— Margaret Mead
Dreams are powerless unless they are specific.
— Bo Sanchez
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
— Mark Twain
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
— Mark Twain
I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
— Martha Graham
He who prays must be like a good, industrious barber who has to keep his mind and eyes precisely upon his razor and hair and know whether to cut or trim, lest by too much gabbing or looking about aimlessly, he slashes someone's mouth or nose, or worse, someone's throat.
— Martin Luther
Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision.
— Nancy Pearcey
to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.
— Exodus 31:5
Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
— Exodus 36:9
Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
— Judges 20:16