Quotes About Accuracy

When you start off a T20 innings you want someone who is going to be hitting the top of off stump, causing problems and being quite disciplined with the ball.

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

Obviously, for safety reasons, there's some stuff I can't do, but fighting is more than just about nailing the moves accurately, to sort of pull off the stunt sequence. It's also about bringing emotion to it and character.

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

There's a correct way to succeed. The incorrect way is to do things incorrectly.

they may produce a reproduction which differs as little as possible from external reality

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

Somebody said there are three kinds of lies: black lies, white lies, and statistics.

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.

This a bit like forecasting the weather a year ahead. Actually, it's not a bit like that. It's exactly like that.

after all, there is such a thing as truth.

It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business.