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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. Eric Hoffer

Knowledge About Open Vehement Most Concerning Least Precise Things

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

Work Art Strong Journalist Understanding Comprehensible Beyond Himself Makes Private Private Thing Forever Precise Artist Straight Product Works Thing Need

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. Ben Bradlee

Insist Think Ought Some More Remain Lazy Journalists Identification Anonymous Sure Because Editors Sources Precise Just Just Because Use Even

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great Reality Joy Breath Photograph Physical Faculties Mastering Becomes Intellectual Precise Hold Converge Fleeting Moment Capture Image

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. John Tukey

Better Made Right Question Approximate Exact Wrong Answer Always Question Than Precise Often Which Far Right Vague

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. John von Neumann

You Sense About No Sense Know Talking Precise Being Even

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. Julian Baggini

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring. Linn Ullmann

Time You Ways Telling Boring About Stuff Genres Perks Very Get Personal Same Precise Precision Same Time Being Different Order Want Stories Different Genres Perspectives Novelist Playing Symbolism

I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection. Ree Drummond

Me Cooking About Perfection Baking Very Precise Prefer

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time. Roy H. Williams

Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip. Adam Cohen

Constitution Strict Free Insist Giving Free Speech Conservatives Way Right Way Magic Potato More Like Terms Judges Due Precise Process While Chip Meaning Activists Right Interpret Speech

If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise. Adam Cohen

Car Precise Going Quite Should Technical

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos

Man Architecture Those Architect More Make Task Precise Sentiments Therefore

I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned. Ajit Pai

To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure. Alan Alda

Time You Pressure Band Energy Tremendous Tremendous Amount Lyrics Everything Musical Takes Know Sing Because Forget Same Precise Same Time Certain Act Keeps Amount Playing

On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day. Alec Baldwin

Day Television Television Show Precise Order Acting Show

My husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon, and you look at, like, the presentation of the food, and it's ridiculous. It looks like a Mondrian painting or something. Everything looks like a bunch of little Hello Kitty erasers when you eat a little bento box in Japan. It's so precise and beautiful and processed and neat. Ali Wong

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The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact. Ari Melber

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise. Art Garfunkel

Think Proportions Precise Games Play Numbers

My job is to be OK without a precise plan. Brooke Baldwin

Job OK Without Precise Plan

Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know? Charlie Parker

How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult. Chris Messina

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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. Christopher Alexander

Life Man Quality First Building Wilderness Way Criterion Must Seek Spirit Objective Name Named Town Know Without Timeless Precise Cannot Which Central Root

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