Accurate Quotes

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.