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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

There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet. — Allen Tate

We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. — Steven Pinker

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision. — Hugh Ross

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition. — Elliott Gould

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision. — Ayn Rand

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

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

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication. — Steven Erikson

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence. — Maria Montessori

Women on trains
have a life
that is exactly livable
the precision of days flashing past — Audre Lorde

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. — Italo Calvino

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

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? — Lois Lowry

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

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity — Cyndi Lee

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

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision. — Jeff Cooper

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

That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream Daddy Issues. — Richard Kadrey

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F.R. Leavis

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision. — Kurt Godel

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

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work. — Gil Kane

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. — Vladimir Nabokov

The precision required for life to exist cannot be fathomed as we know it — Sunday Adelaja

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

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture. — Eric Ripert

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

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty — John Ruskin

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others — Peter Abelard

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times. — John White

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

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. — Sebastian Smee

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

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. — Henri Matisse

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. — Samuel Beckett

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey

Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision. — Tyler Cowen

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. — Chelsea Clinton

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision. — Dan Quayle

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

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those. — Luka Sulic

I am not a bomber. I'm more about precision and being target-oriented. I have to rely on all parts of my game firing if I'm going to win. — Luke Donald

The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful — Sunday Adelaja

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision. — Lord Acton

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

Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise. — Mark Lawrence

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

Soldering iron, Max."
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used. — Nick Cutter

Love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. — Yves Klein

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. — Max Planck

Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision. — Albert Camus

Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision — Suze Orman

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

The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. — Yvor Winters

In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. — Erich Hartmann

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. — Percival Lowell

It was the voice of someone emerging from anesthesia, speaking with the exaggerated precision of a wondering mind striving for clarity. — Magda Szabo