Quotes About Accuracy

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

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.

I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

For me, I focus on trying to get it right and be as fair as possible. There's not much else I can do. People will believe what they want - facts be damned.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

I want to stress that—only sixty digits. That's the most we would ever need to express one distance in terms of another.

That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to ? that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for ? itself.

Overall, the research suggests that conspiracy theories appeal to people who seek accuracy or meaning about personally important issues, but lack the cognitive resources or have other problems that prevent them from finding the answers to questions by more rational means