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Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.
— Bertrand Russell
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
— Maurice Druon
Vows, like wishes, are dangerous things. Precision matters.
— Karen Marie Moning
As the six, in file, passed into the poorhouse proper they clicked off glances of disdain with industrial precision.
— John Updike
Precision in matters of Christian doctrine is a hallmark of confessional Lutheranism, all for the sake of the Gospel.
— C.F.W. Walther
By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
— Bruno Walter
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] — Henry David Thoreau
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857] — Henry David Thoreau
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
— Robert Bresson
We are justified through faith in Christ, not through doctrinal precision.
— Michael S. Horton
A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.
— Steven Sinofsky
Numerical precision is the very soul of science.
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — Maria Montessori
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — Maria Montessori
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
— David Lloyd George
As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision
— Lotfi A. Zadeh
I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker
— Adolf Hitler
Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing.
— Robert Macfarlane
When you come to a point where nothing looks surprising to you, you can then analyse the matters calmly and with much better precision!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.
— Dana Reinhardt
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
— Steven Millhauser
The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.
— Pema Chodron
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ...
— Salvador Dali
What matters about creating alignment around a strategy is not the volume of communication, but its quality and precision.
— Stephen Bungay
Dance must have a precision without fault.
— Arielle Dombasle
It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
— Mortimer J. Adler
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
— F.R. Leavis
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
— Helen Vendler
And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.
— William Safire
People, alas, don't document things with any kind of precision. They fill Twitter with blurry photos.
— Maria Dahvana Headley
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.
— Charlie Munger
Golf is a game of precision, not strength.
— Jack Nicklaus
The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.
— Richard Hayne
I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others
— Peter Abelard
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.
— David Suzuki
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
— Igor Stravinsky
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision.
— Tyler Cowen
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
— Karl Popper
For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.
— Paul Parker
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
— William Blake
You can never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.
— Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
— Leonard Mlodinow
We must all go above and beyond treating our children with absolute precision because they are our future.
— Chris Mentillo
What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.
— Henri Bergson
Heaven is precision.
— Christian Wiman
Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
— E. E. Cummings
The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
— Anatol Rapoport
Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.
— Stan Kelly-Bootle
All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
— Bernd Becher
Contrary to most people's beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.
— Shayan Italia
Love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.
— Josephine Winslow Johnson
Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision.
— Albert Camus
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
— Shawn Johnson
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
— Kenneth L. Pike
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.
— Gil Kane
A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
— Jules Verne
It shouldn't surprise me that men continue to think of grand new ways to kill one another, and with greater precision ...
— Alexandra Bracken
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
— Brian Greene
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
— David Whyte
In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.
— Erich Hartmann