Quotes About Accuracy

Patativa do Assaré: "É melhor escrever errado a coisa certa do que escrever certo a coisa errada...

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Based on their extensive review of evidence, Hattie and others (2017) recommend: "not to mix praise with feedback about the content, as it dilutes the feedback message." When given, praise "needs to be specific, sincere, accurate, earned, preferably unexpected, not exaggerated, more private than public, and not include social comparison.

Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.

Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?" With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed.

At every instant the objects and events in the world around us bombard us with impressions. As they do so they produce a phantasia, a mental impression. From this the mind generates a perception (hypolepsis), which might best be compared to a print made from a photographic negative. Ideally this print will be an accurate and faithful representation of the original. But it may not be. It may be blurred, or it may include shadow images that distort or obscure the original.

The way I understand things, the Bible may have been thought out by God, but it was written down by men. And like everything men write down, such as the newspapers, they got the main story right but some of the details wrong.

so hard, sometimes, to tag those memories accurately.

There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

If you've never mistyped your password, it isn't complex enough.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

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

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.