Quotes about Precision

The carpenter's rule is "measure twice, cut once.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

Truth by definition excludes.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ Letter to Harrison Blake ; November 16, 1857]

The way for a person to develop a style is to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

trying to cook over the fire, plugging in the lamp before attempting to flip it on, or cranking up the engine before trying to put the car into gear. We

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.