Quotes About Accuracy

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

First, get your facts straight. Then, distort them at your leisure.

nodded, "A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations

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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

When it comes to basketball you always want to put the ball in the hole. You want to get as consistent and get that muscle memory right and be consistent.

My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.

I'm real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

Let's nail it down, let's get it right.

It is very easy to try to type cosmopolitan.com and accidentally type foxsports.com, if you just got your nails done.

If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.

Never use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades

Knowledge flies the sword true to its aim.

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy

It's better to get things right than to get them fast.

but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?