Top 756 Precise Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Ah, grief makes us precise!
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art — © Dan Rather
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others
My job is to be OK without a precise plan.
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.
Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. — © Theodor W. Adorno
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day.
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.
I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".
The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has never been proved at all. However, like relativity, it is accepted on faith.... On getting down to actual details, difficulties begin.
When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.
These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
History provides no precise guidelines.
Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.
I am a precise person in everything I do.
The shot from Laws was precise but wide.
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.
To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
I've made a career of being precise.
Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.
Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.
Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. — © Douglas Dunn
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.
I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
I try to be precise with my passes but take some risks as well.
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
[Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to do, though he wasn't always in agreement, and I picked him because I know he'll follow my orders with the same discipline.
On cannot be precise, and still be true.
[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.
I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise. — © Art Garfunkel
I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.
We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.
Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.
What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.
The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.
A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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