Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [. . . ]
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning. . . The ethical and moral questions. . . in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process
What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.
Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.