“ I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. ”
- Dennis Quaid- Copy
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“ It's not correct to say nothing was done. I — I — you're making a set of conclusions that are just simply not accurate. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. ”
- Kenneth Tynan- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. ”
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose. ”
- Chris Evert- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination! ”
- Jacques Lipchitz- Copy
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“ I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good. ”
- Luciano Pavarotti- Copy
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“ I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do. ”
- Michelle Pfeiffer- Copy
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“ The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
- 2.8K
“ You have a perfect right to use your imagination as you will in developing the principles, but the fundamental scientific theory must be correct. ”
- Hugo Gernsback- Copy
- 2.8K
“ At the precise moment you take off your shoe in a shoestore, your big toe will pop out of your sock to see what is going on. ”
- Ginsburg- Copy
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“ Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 330
“ I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ”
- John B. S. Haldane- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
- 2K
“ Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.". ”
- Raymond Smullyan- Copy
- 4K
“ Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 306
“ The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity. ”
- Henry Louis- Copy
- 397
“ We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. ”
- Franklin P. Adams- Copy
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