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Quotes About Accuracy

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.
~ David Brock
I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.
~ Barun Sobti
To footnote properly takes time.
~ David Starkey
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.
~ Jonathan Agnew
I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.
~ Ricky Gervais
Sometimes he was adorned or made to don Half-vestures then in statued nudity Did imitate some god that seems to be By marble's accurate virtue men's again.
~ Fernando Pessoa
In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite
~ Flannery O'Connor
Mr. Trump's memory is fantastic. I've never come across a situation that Mr. Trump has said something that is not accurate.
~ Michael Cohen
I love Hawkeye. I think it has something to with how he's such a marksman from far away. That's something I'd love to be on the court.
~ Brook Lopez
I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.
~ Bruce Sutter
I have found where I am best, and that is being a fact-checker and being fearless.
~ Katy Tur
One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.
~ Matthew Stewart
It's important to drive consistently to evaluate changes that are made to the car. You need to be very accurate with your feedback and communicate as much information as possible.
~ Nico Hulkenberg
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
~ Kurt Busiek
I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.
~ Graeme Souness
I'm trying to become just more clinical in every situation, whether it's the final pass, the final shot, or whatever it is.
~ Christian Pulisic
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
~ Xenophon
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.
~ John F. Kelly
Do not be intimidated. Go where the story goes. Report the facts. Make sure you've got it right. And don't let things that the president says or that the White House does throw you off your game.
~ Jeff Zucker
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
~ Victor LaValle
Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.
~ Ram Nath Kovind