Accuracy Quotes

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.