Quotes About Accuracy

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

I'm a numbers guy, and I think numbers sometimes tell stories and sometimes they don't. When you look at the NBA, when teams shoot 45% or better from the floor, what is their record? And if they shoot under that what is their record?

I think on special teams... I want to be sound.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

I'm not sure if I would be able to do set-pieces, but I'm good at penalties, either using power or technique on shooting it.

Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates and greater accuracy.

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.

Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.

Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world.

I struggle off the tee. If I can hit my driver straight, then I'm usually playing well.

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

Having racially diverse casts on television is a more accurate depiction of the demographic of the world we live in.

You amp things up and you speed things up, but technically, you can still be legally correct. This is the big beef I have with novels as well as television shows - it actually makes for a better show when you accommodate the truth.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

I may not write poetry in Telugu but I need to get the nuances right.

In my eyes, baking and pastry-making is like a science - all the measuring of quantities and temperatures.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.