Precision In Thought Quotes

#1. Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Caroline Goyder

#2. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

David McCullough

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

Steven Millhauser

#4. A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the "power of precision," and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.

Archibald Marwizi

#5. How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

Gretel Ehrlich

#6. To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Henri Matisse

#7. They seemed more like machines than humans, and, let's face it, they are a civilian's army. An army whose soldiers dressed in costumes and walked and talked like robots, with guns strapped to their waist belts, always looking for an enemy.

Kenneth Eade

#8. I'd thought of her with unblinking eyes, moving always, across the pages of opened books with rapid precision, but as she stood in front of me, her eyes looked slow and watery. I capsized into them.

Amber Dermont

#9. Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it.

Ian Pattison

#10. I don't want to leave her side, but having her wake up like this would be bad for our budding relationship.

K. Webster

#11. Meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

Chogyam Trungpa

#12. My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand. And yet, without a harshness which was foreign to his nature, it was impossible to refuse to listen to the story of the young and beautiful woman

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Making changes in our lives is never easy. If you're not struggling, you're not really changing. Push through until you reach a new normal!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#14. I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

Philip Roth

#15. Brandon's greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.

Brandon Mull

#16. I thought it would be weird having sex with short hair but then I kind of got into the mode.

Pamela Anderson

#17. Ayurveda teaches us to love "as is" - not as we think people "should be.

Lissa Coffey

#18. The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Robert Solow

#19. When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Lucy Freeman

#20. Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.

Michael Klare

#21. There's no guessing when it comes to being in love, there's just knowing.

Michele L. Rivera

#22. How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth...

Deyth Banger

#23. [There is less precision in the Chinese than I have thought it well to introduce into my translation, and the commentaries on the passage are by no means explicit. But, having regard to the context, we can hardly doubt that Sun Tzu is holding up I Chih and Lu Ya as illustrious

Sun Tzu

#24. The day the library was shut down, he thought, some maiden librarian had moved down the room, pushing each chair against its table. Carefully, with a plodding precision that was the cachet of herself.

Richard Matheson

#25. The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.

Anonymous

#26. You can go as far as your thoughts takes you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.

Thomas J. Watson