Precise
Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
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Precise Quotations
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren Buffett
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Eric Hoffer
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound
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
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August von Hayek
Precise Translations
precise in Afrikaans is juis
precise in Dutch is precies, scherp, juist, minutieus
precise in Finnish is tarkka
precise in German is gewissenhaft, genau
precise in Italian is minuzioso
precise in Portuguese is preciso
precise in Spanish is preciso
precise in Swedish is exakt, precisera, precis
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