Quotes About Accuracy

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

For the most part, when you play a full shot from the primary rough at your course, you're gauging how close to a standard shot you can hit based on your lie in the grass.

My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.

Middle-class friends of mine were appalled to discover that the spelling being taught to their daughter in school was frequently wrong; they were even more appalled when they drew it to the attention of the school's head teacher and were told it did not matter, since the spelling was approximately right and everyone knew anyway what the misspelling meant.

Yet it is curious to see how a really truthful man will forget his misses, and his hits at close quarters, and, by dint of constant repetition, will finally persuade himself that he is in the habit of killing his game at three or four hundred yards.

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

Robert Lewandowski has had some criticism, but he knows how to find the net.

They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.

Fake News has become a matter of concern in the country.

With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

So someone can ask me what reflects my interpretation of the way things are, and I can tell them where they can get material that looks at the world the way I think it ought to be looked at-but then they have to decide whether or not that's accurate. Ultimately it's your own mind that has to be the arbiter: you've got to rely on your own common sense and intelligence, you can't rely on anyone else for the truth.

Recently I saw a movie in which people were eating take-out pizza in 1948 and it drove me nuts. There was no take-out pizza in 1948. There was barely any pizza, and barely any takeout.

Doing it right, is more important than doing it fast. I can do it fast and right.