Quotes About Accuracy

But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.

What made Lady Angkatell dangerous, he thought, was the fact that those intuitive, wild guesses of hers might be often right. With a careless (seemingly careless?) word she built up a picture - and if parts of the picture was right, wouldn't you, in spite of yourself, believe in the other half of the picture?...

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

Interrogo-me muitas vezes porque motivo tem o mundo uma tendência tão grande para generalizar. As generalizações raramente ou quase nunca são verdadeiras e são muitas vezes totalmente inexactas.

És végül a pisztolylövés. Az egyetlen hibám. Halántékon is l?hettem volna. De képtelen voltam rászánni magam, hogy ilyen aszimmetrikus, hebehurgya munkát végezzek. Nem, legyen szimmetrikus a lövés, pontosan a homloka közepébe...

But the newspapers, they are so inaccurate, I never go by what they say.

Miss Marple is not the type of elderly lady who makes mistakes. She has got an uncanny knack of being always right.

often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

and after all I am constantly in the habit of being right"—Race smiled into his moustache at this typical utterance

There's no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

That fellow couldn't count his balls and get the same number twice.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.

They're pretty accurate, the clocks in mobile phones.

I have very strong memories of my early years. In fact, I remember the house I was born in, and we moved from that house when I was less than ten months old. I have drawn pictures of it and shown my mother, and she was shocked because we have no photos of the place, and I was very accurate.

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

If you're playing a shot and your peripheral vision picks up a player moving as you play the shot, if your vision goes from the object ball to what they're doing, you can miss the shot by several inches.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Over the years, CBO has been all over the board on healthcare. The only consistent point is they've missed the mark on different pieces. That's the nature of a scorekeeper.

I once read that I had six kids and was a pig farmer. That's not entirely accurate.

On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.