Precision in dress is
Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure. G. Bruce Boyer
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Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure. G. Bruce Boyer
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better. Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. Esa-Pekka Salonen
In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds. Erich Hartmann
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
I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is … Read more
I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition. Elliott Gould
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man’s brain that was entirely beneficial … Read more
A scientist with a poet’s command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, … Read more
Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles. Edwin A. Abbott