Quotes About Accuracy

Most of these quotations on Goodreads are shit I never said. That's because idiots submit them, and Goodreads never checks their authenticity.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Our categories arise from the fact that we are neural beings, from the nature of our bodily capacities, from our experience interacting in the world, and from our evolved capacity for basic-level categorization - a level at which we optimally interact with the world. Evolution has not required us to be as accurate above and below the basic level as at the basic level, and so we are not.

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

If you misdiagnose, if you misdiagnose anything, whether it's a serious disease or a international geopolitical threat, you will never solve it.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

I threw in some baskets that were in four-point range.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

When I'm disciplined with my drop and my footwork, I usually throw it pretty good. And when I'm a little bit off, or a little careless in that manner and not dead on to where I'm supposed to be, I'm not as good. So that's one thing - just being disciplined in my drops and my footwork.

When I throw a dart, even when I'm looking I know if I've missed or hit as soon as I release the dart.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.