Quotes About Accuracy

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

My job is to be accurate and clear.

It's important for people to listen and take time to watch what's going on in these shows, especially the ones like 'Top Boy' that are painting an accurate picture.

As far as being accurate goes, I think you either are or you aren't. I don't think you can really become accurate.

My approach is the truth and aiming for the truth.

Coming out of college that's all people kept saying was I couldn't shoot. I shot probably 30-something percent from 3 so they were pretty much on top of that.

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

I feel my arm's gotten stronger, I've been more accurate with it, and I've just got to keep that going.

In journalism," said Lousteau, "everything that is probable is true. That is an axiom.

La potenza non consiste nel colpire forte o spesso, ma nel colpire giusto".

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

An accurate opinion on valuation, loosely held, will be of limited help. An incorrect opinion on valuation, strongly held, is far worse. This one statement shows how hard it is to get it all right

It is too easy for the sheer mass of big data to overwhelm the sorts of healthy skepticism that is required to defeat deception. And now, with so much of our lives being tied up with giant electronic memory systems, it is almost trivial for terabytes of data to accumulate on almost any topic.

The uniqueness of God's Word sets our faith apart from all others. No other book reveals both the world around us and the world within us with complete and demonstrable accuracy and consistency. Testable accuracy and consistency. Increasing accuracy and consistency. So, that's where my apologia begins. It ends, of course, with the person who rightfully claimed, 'I am the way—and the truth and the life' (John 14:6).

Most bowlers want to control the ball. That effort creates the tension that makes their swings more erratic.

The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

They say statistics by their nature don't lie, but in my opinion they sometimes do and damnably at that.