Imprecise Quotes

#1. It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise ...

Felix Mendelssohn

#2. We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#3. Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Kenneth Koch

#4. Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [ ... ]

Zadie Smith

#5. What an imprecise science was medicine. It was more an art than was fiction.

Graham Moore

#6. Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Pattiann Rogers

#7. The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

John Fowles

#8. Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive, a little imprecise, until now.

Amor Towles

#9. A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#10. Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

Karen Russell

#12. The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning ... The ethical and moral questions ... in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

William Kentridge

#13. Pretentious and over-active semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought.

Lynne Truss

#14. What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

Tim Ferriss

#15. The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

Werner Heisenberg

#16. you can invite trouble if you slouch, avoid eye contact, use vague, imprecise language, and are generally sloppy in your attire.

Carmine Gallo

#17. Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves.

Jeannine Atkins

#18. Our greatest failing is that we neglect the significance of a question and obsess over the accuracy of the answer. Therefore, we end up being satisfied with remarkably accurate answers to meaningless questions and dissatisfied with imprecise answers that attempt to respond to the important issues.

D.A. Blankinship

#19. It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Alison Bechdel

#20. Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

John Maynard Keynes

#21. ... both spiritual teachers and preachers fall into the trap of using imprecise, emotional mumbo jumbo - if you can't define it or explain it, then it's mumbo jumbo - to connect with an audience. The audience reads into it what they want, and it makes for good theater.

Gudjon Bergmann

#22. we have realized that it is our immediate intuitions that are imprecise:

Carlo Rovelli

#23. Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

John Piper

#24. Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

David Galenson

#25. Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it.

J.K. Rowling

#26. So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Daniel Keys Moran

#27. The faithful are called through grace to be partakers of God's holiness (Heb. 12), restored to their primordial capacity to reflect, like a mirror, the radical holiness and purity of God, even though their mirroring is always imprecise (Irenaeus, Ag. Her. 5.16).

Thomas C. Oden

#28. Nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.

Robert Musil

#29. Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Mignon McLaughlin

#30. One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning in my house.

Steven Wright

#31. Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't feel it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. (regarding prejudice and discrimination)

Marian Anderson

#32. The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

Julian Castro

#33. I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

Dolly Parton

#34. 'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.

Lewis Carroll