Quotes About Accuracy

Everything here is true, but it might not be entirely factual.

Historiallisissa kysymyksissä suurinkin mahdollinen varmuus on vain likiarvo.

Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now.

Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Details create success.

A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

Testing has found that professional interrogators perform within the 45 to 60 percent range in sorting truth from lies, little better than flipping a coin.

Because the neocortex (the thinking brain) is capable of dishonesty, it is not a good source of reliable or accurate information (Ost, 2006, 259

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

A lie can go around the world twice before the truth gets its socks on.

The truth is creepier. It's not that they are listening and then they can do targeted ad serving. It's that their model of you is so accurate that it's making predictions about you that you think are magic.

It's that their model of you is so accurate that it's making predictions about you that you think are magic.

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In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.