Quotes about Precision
I love watches, for sure. The watch I love the most is Richard Mille because it's part of something that started from zero.
— Felipe Massa
I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.
— Gerald Ford
I always back myself as a finisher, but I always practise it as well. Every type of finish: left foot, right foot, headers, penalties, free kicks.
— Harry Kane
Everything about the compound there at Hendrick Motorsports just down the street is perfect. Everything down to the way they mow the lawn. It looks amazing.
— Kyle Larson
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing. Combine contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time.
— Carl Sagan
As ages passed, people learned from their ancestors. The more accurately you knew the position and movements of the Sun and Moon and stars, the more reliably you could predict when to hunt, when to sow and reap, when to gather the tribes. As precision of measurement improved, records had to be kept, so astronomy encouraged observation and mathematics and the development of writing.
— Carl Sagan
Would you say, "Billy, be home by the time the Earth has rotated enough so as to occult the Sun below the local horizon"? Billy would be long gone before you're finished.
— Carl Sagan
You've got to make it easy for the judges to mark. It's got to be clean elements.
— Scott Moir
Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal—a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision—for us.
— Hugh Ross
Exactitude is not truth.
— Henri Matisse
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
— CS Lewis