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An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.
Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.
I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes.
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
I was always good at video games like 'Guitar Hero,' which require the player to press buttons at precise times.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise.
With social media, one can target the audience and reach out to the segment in a very precise, cost-effective manner.
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.
The Wii is fun, but nothing feels all that accurate or precise. I don't want to play an action game with controls that sloppy.
I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.
I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
Amelie' was a very precise, a very composed performance - ultra-defined, down to the tips of her fingernails, the ends of her hair.
With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.
I have that brawler's mentality, and I can get into that realm, but when I'm at my best is when I'm patient, precise, and technical.
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
Normcore doesn't equal wearing the first pair of jeans and T-shirt from your wardrobe. Behind dressing easy, lies a precise selection.
I think I went to 67 'Grateful Dead' shows. I'm the only 'Deadhead' who doesn't know the precise number, and it's totally humiliating.
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of writers who do.
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.
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.
The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.
Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
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.
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.
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.
There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.