Quotes About Accuracy

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

He was continually surprised at the speed and accuracy of her creepiness. She was like some creepiness child prodigy

The martial arts would not be developed by Buddhist monks until after that, 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?

This sounds basic, almost too basic to mention, but listening is a strategy and a skill that is losing ground in society. Most people think they are good listeners, but if adults played "the Telephone Game" today, how accurate would the final message be? Listening requires focus, and focus isn't easy because we're stretched in several directions. Listening

you can send a 360-degree survey that asks you and other people questions about your self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management skills. The result is a complete picture of your own and others' perceptions. Believe it or not, what others say about you is usually more accurate than what you think about yourself.

I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.

Not bad, not bad at all, Diotallevi said. To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

we will not succeed if our actions are based on myths and misinformation.

Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.

Finding out how much food actually is consumed is a challenging task, and neither dietary recalls nor household expenditure surveys yield accurate results.

Errors make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic;

sake of exactness

if merely for the sake of exactness in all points

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

Tout y est sobre, exact, nu, précis, correct. Un phare est un chiffre

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

Pre-Internet information systems, in which accuracy and credibility were determined mainly by experts or otherwise designated deciders, had terrible flaws and annoyances, including complacency, blind spots, snobbishness, and bigotry. But those gates and gatekeepers also managed to keep the worst hogwash out of our mainstream.

It is always of paramount importance to know that the information we have is not planted, false or a product of deception.

99.99% of predictions have gone right so far about the stock market and it can be verified by old messages

There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter