Precise Action Quotes

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.

There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.

When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.