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Precision Quotes

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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
Bruno Walter

Authors on Precision Quotes: Henri Matisse Igor Stravinsky Adolf Hitler Jack Nicklaus David Whyte Max Planck Robert Bresson Peter Abelard Arielle Dombasle Harold Taylor Des Lynam Michael J. Silverstein Steven Sinofsky Pierre Bonnard Gil Kane Audre Lorde Lea Thompson Donald Rumsfeld Kurt Gödel Steven Millhauser Eric Fischl Jeff Cooper William Hazlitt Frank Herbert Bernd Becher Elliott Gould Jennifer Egan Salvador Dali D. A. Carson Helen Vendler Brian Greene Karl Popper Josephine Winslow Johnson
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Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
Sebastian Smee

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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard

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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Donald Rumsfeld

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

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

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I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
Steven Millhauser

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

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To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.
Leo Ornstein

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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

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

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Golf is a game of precision, not strength.
Jack Nicklaus

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All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.
Bernd Becher

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I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
David Whyte

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The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.
Karl Popper

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Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
William Hazlitt

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Precision is not reality
Henri Matisse

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Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
Robert Bresson

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I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.
Adolf Hitler

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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
Igor Stravinsky

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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

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Dance must have a precision without fault.
Arielle Dombasle

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A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.
Eric Fischl

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

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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
B.K.S. Iyengar

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A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
Brian Greene

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The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.
D. A. Carson

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Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.
Michael J. Silverstein

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Someone like myself,
who claimed to be a real madman,
living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali

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Kicked wide of the goal with such precision
Des Lynam

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The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.
Jennifer Egan

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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor

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

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The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
Lea Thompson

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

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Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
Frank Herbert

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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

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A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.
Steven Sinofsky

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

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