Quotes About Accuracy

My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.'

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

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.

Todo totalmente distinto. Porque lo anotado no es exacto. Nada de lo que se anota es exacto. No puede pretender nada. Ni siquiera precisión, aunque todo se consigne según el leal saber y entender, pensando saber algo sobre un asunto totalmente cierto. Siempre será, en el mejor de los casos, menos falso. Pero falso. Distinto. Por consiguiente, no verdadero.

The Internet is at once a gold mine of solid content and a hellhole of misinformation.

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be an irresistible product of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are required to use specific definitions of each trait in their judgments.27

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."11 As individuals and as a society, we should be less accepting of superstition and sloppy thinking, and should strive to develop those "habits of mind" that promote a more accurate view of the world.

Questa è la risposta di Orazio, mia cara Lisaweta. 'Considerare le cose in questo modo significherebbe considerarle con troppa precisione,' non è vero?

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.… —John Adams1

But his was an understandable mistake, given how little attention is paid to accuracy in history and how often history is used as just a propaganda tool in current controversies.

Before an explanation can be too simple, it must first be wrong.

But beliefs are neither moral nor immoral. They may be accurate or inaccurate, founded or unfounded, but they acquire moral significance only when they are shaped to serve some ulterior purpose that is either moral or immoral.

Our brains much prefer it when we're able to predict the future with accuracy, and so we're inclined to create cultural stories and patterns that allow us to do that. Living happily ever after is one such collective pattern that grants us a sense of predictability and certainty in life and holds the standard for societal harmony.

If I remember correctly, I called you an asshole doctor." "That's no more than the truth... except I'm not a proctologist.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Paulo Coelho When

Die auf der Autozulassung angegebene Adresse ist falsch." "Ernsthaft? Das haben sie so schnell herausgefunden?" "Nee. Hab eine Stecknadel in die Luft geworfen und geschaut, wo sie auf der Karte landet.

You're familiar with the P = NP problem, right?" Yukawa asked from behind him. Ishigami looked around. "You're referring to the question of whether or not it is as easy to determine the accuracy of another person's results as it is to solve the problem yourself—or, failing that, how the difference in difficulty compares. It's one of the questions the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a prize to solve.

if all truth has its source in God and if all truth is unified, then one thing we know to be a fact is that if there is a contradiction between an interpretation of Scripture and an interpretation of what God has created, then one or both of those interpretations is incorrect.

It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O

What is truth? Truth is telling it like it really is. Truth is not a thing, but rather a relationship between our words or ideas and reality. Whether

The first thing you will notice is that Simms' ark is much closer to the biblical proportions that were given: 300 by 50 by 30 cubits (Genesis 6:15). Mr. Simms simply squares them off. I'm surprised many illustrators and researchers today have failed to attain this basic information, considering it is given in the Scriptures. Instead, they proceed

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.