#exact

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. ↗

— Albert Camus

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The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#available #charges #code #exactly #justice

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#exact #growth #language #our #ourselves

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. ↗

— Julia Child

#anything #books #doing #enough #exactly

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#apt #beautiful #better #brain #exact

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for. ↗

— Matt Damon

#definitely #director #enough #exact #get

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do. ↗

— Scott Foley

#enough #exactly #figure #growing #growing up

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ↗

— William Gibson

#about #exactly #net #right #time

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #best #doing #exact #exact opposite