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Striving for Accuracy

Desiring exactness, fidelity, perfection, elegance and craftsmanship. Check it again!

Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Turkish Proverb
Good is not good, where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
William J. H. Boetcker
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson,
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux
On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly – you are still going in the right direction.
Charles Garfield
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
Ben Hogan, Golfer
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hoffman
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
John Updike
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. Munro (Saki)
I don't want to get into anything that would only be half-way. If we're going to commit to it, then we're going to commit to it all the way.
Al Unser, Jr., Racecar driver
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
William Feather
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina, of Sweden
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
If you aren’t going all the way; why go at all?
Joe Namath
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurements anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
George Bernard Shaw
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Kenny Rogers
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson, (200 and 400 meter world record holder)
The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young, Football Player
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