Accuracy Quotes

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

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

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

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

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

May my silences become more accurate.

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

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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

Feel is a lot more important than accuracy.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

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

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.

A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats can sniff it out with 100 percent accuracy but they prefer to watch you die.

The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

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

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Accuracy builds credibility.

Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.

Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction.

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.