Quotes About Accuracy

The more you think back on an event, the worse it gets in your memory. The best way to remember something accurately is to write it down before your cynical imagination gets carried away.

Mirror, Standard, Telegraph, Birmingham Post, Sketch, all careful to report accurately the events without editorial comment. Unlike some countries, the British press must be exceedingly careful not to try a man in the newspapers and magazines before he comes to court. In such cases when a newspaper becomes an accuser or prejudger, turning public sentiment, the paper can be named as a defendant to the action. It keeps journalism honest.

In fact, the first clock to record hours of equal length wasn't invented until the 1330s. Before that, daylight, however long, had been divided into twelve equal intervals, which meant that an "hour" might be more than twice as long in June as in December (in London, for example, it varied from 38 to 82 of today's minutes).

in real-life situations we often make the opposite error: we assume that a sample or a series of trials is representative of the underlying situation when it is actually far too small to be reliable.

In fact, studies show that the people with the most accurate self-perceptions tend to be moderately depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or both. An overly positive self-evaluation, on the other hand, is considered normal and healthy.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

I'll be counting the cats when I come over. There better be the same number each time.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

All sports are games of inches.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Aku Berpikir terus menerus berbulan bulan dan bertahun tahun, sembilan puluh sembilan kali dan kesimpulannya salah. Untuk yang keseratus aku benar.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.