Quotes about Precision

Be quick - but don't hurry.

If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Dreams are powerless unless they are specific.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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.

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.

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.

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.

Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.

Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.