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Quotes about Precision

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.
— Zig Ziglar
Having the right equipment is often the difference between success and failure. To insert a screw, a carpenter doesn't use a knife. When you're under anesthesia, you don't want your surgeon using a chainsaw. A climber on Mount Everest won't use dollar store equipment. Professionals are picky about using the right equipment as they know it can be dangerous if they aren't. Life can be dangerous, too, so it's essential that you use the right equipment.
— Rick Warren
Know what you are talking about.
— Pope John Paul II
Met de uiterste voorzichtigheid, maandenlang mogelijkheden tegen elkaar afwegend, bijna tot in het overdrevene toe langzaam, zo streng mogelijke maatstaven aanleggend, vatte hij zijn oordeel over een letter, een woord of een hele zin pas dan samen, wanneer hij van de onaantastbaarheid ervan zeker was.
— Elias Canetti
God makes the assignments, and he apportions the degree of difficulty in precise measurements.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection, no more.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.
— Robert Frost
A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
— John Wooden
Whatever you do, do it well.
— Walt Disney
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
— Vince Lombardi
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
— Lao Tzu