Quotes About Accuracy

Het lijkt me overbodig hieraan toe te voegen dat geen enkel feit verzonnen is.

because truth is always and only what it is

Drew had never before shot like he did that day, nor has he since. It was something to see. The contest had just begun when he walked up, aimed, and felled a cluster from the very top of the boughs.

Nowadays people rush into print before they've even finished the proof.

The most irritating thing about clichés, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

Seeing them, Jamie reached for a remnant of bread, and tossed it with considerable accuracy into the middle of the flock, which exploded like shrapnel, all fleeing the sudden intrusion.

Astrology is interesting but not very accurate. It's a science I don't trust very much.

When you are working on a real story it is your responsibility to get everything right and stay as true and authentic as possible.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

The easiest way to make television authentic is to make it really authentic.

I am an economist, not an astrologer.

I have also known of weight estimates by ultrasound to be off by as much as five pounds.

mi sembra che il linguaggio venga sempre usato in modo approssimativo, casuale, sbadato, e ne provo un fastidio intollerabile.

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in accordance with the facts.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

Four point two

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

The legendary New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously quipped: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.

Being vague is the enemy of a good label.

In 1843 he declared: "I believe the bible, as it ought to be, as it came from the pen of the original writers." He then gave an example of a problematic text that was resolved in his revision of the Old Testament, implying that he had corrected the text to its original reading.11

Skills of proficiency are about doing a task the same way, every single time.

1) Every human movement, thought, or feeling is a precisely timed electric signal traveling through a chain of neurons—a circuit of nerve fibers. (2) Myelin is the insulation that wraps these nerve fibers and increases signal strength, speed, and accuracy. (3) The more we fire a particular circuit, the more myelin optimizes that circuit, and the stronger, faster, and more fluent our movements and thoughts become.