Quotes about Precision
Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.
— Tom Douglas
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In fact, the ripples are so exact (down to one part in one hundred thousand) that Smoot called them the "machining marks from the creation of the universe" and the "fingerprints of the maker."15
— Norman Geisler
She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.
— Virginia Woolf
Not to put too fine a point upon it.
— Charles Dickens
So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.
— Charles Dickens
While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
— Hannah More
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
— Thomas Jefferson
A beard well lathered is half shaven.
— Oprah Winfrey
Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
— Confucius
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
— Confucius
Practicing archery is like practicing to be a Gentleman. When you miss the bulls-eye, you look for the error in yourself.
— Confucius