Quotes about Precision

Music is really, really mathematical.

I believe only in the mathematics.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

I just write mechanical things.

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.

Sometimes, I put a couple of mannequins on the edge of the box and do these things called bounce balls. You pass against it, and it comes back; you take a couple of touches 'round the mannequins and shoot.

The market needs a super car with no excuses.

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…