Quotes About Accuracy

People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

One must speak the truth about the past or not at all.

Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes," Aguilar says. "Like a broken clock, twice a day.

Man had a habit of routinely taking up and firing a revolver at the roosterroaches who dwelt in His house, with westerly accuracy depending on how much He had had to drink. Other ministers before Brother Tichborne had determined that this shooting and westering of chosen roosterroaches was both a form of punishment and an expression of Man's love, and therefore the shooting, or the act of being shot, was called not a westering but a Rapture.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Studies have shown that 94% of college professors think that they do above average work.

Everyone was jolly cross with Michael Fish when he didn't see the 1987 storm coming. But it turns out that he had no satellites and no computers, just a big checked jacket. Big checked jackets are no good at predicting the weather.

The probability that a diagnostic test will be positive if the disease is present (sensitivity), the probability that a test would be negative if the disease is absent (specificity).

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe. If your believing is inaccurate your actions will be inaccurate and your faith will not produce. That is one of the most difficult things for Christians to grasp. Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe.

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

serious crimes such as robbery were downgraded to "theft snatch," and rapes were often underreported so as to hit performance targets. As a retired detective chief superintendent put it, "When targets are set by offices such as the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, what they think they are asking for are 20% fewer victims. That translates into 'record 20% fewer crimes' as far as … senior officers are concerned.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

In this day before sonar, a submarine traveled utterly blind, trusting entirely in the accuracy of sea charts. One great fear of all U-boat men was that a half-sunk derelict or an uncharted rock might lie in their path.

However strange or macabre some of the following incidents may seem, this is not a work of fiction.

One cannot possibly get accurate bombing on a selected target in this way.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.

There has been more error propagated from the press in the last ten years than in a hundred years before,' was the jaundiced judgement of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a frequent victim of press vituperation and ridicule.9

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

Anyone,' Avallac'h wiped his hands on a rag, 'can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.

A predire il futuro sono buoni tutti. E lo fanno tutti, perché è facilissimo. La vera arte è predirlo in maniera giusta.