Accuracy Quotes

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

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

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.

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

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.

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.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

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

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.

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.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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.