Quotes About Accuracy

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.

Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

Nothing will replace good journalism.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.