Quotes About Accuracy

Sometimes the pass is perfect, but you can't shoot the puck. Sometimes it's a bad pass and you do a good shot.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

Definitely Bollywood needs to learn from Hollywood - in terms of discipline... In Hollywood, everybody is very punctual, very focussed and very accurate. It is very professional.

Pundits talk as if polls are always right, but if they were, pundits wouldn't have jobs.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

To me, if you don't get something right, the biggest thing you need to do is recognize it and fix it.

Archers are pretty focused.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

Fox is fair and balanced.

Even the most disciplined commander-in-chief misspeaks from time to time.

Yes, there are moments when it's frustrating where you can't put the ball where you want it and you make mistakes.

Is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly?

Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists.

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have little to do with it.

The clock there had not been properly adjusted to local time, and she had to subtract twenty-one minutes to determine that it was about 2 A.M. The

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.