Quotes About Accuracy

Round numbers are always false.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.

People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.

Everything here must be done twice as no one can do it right the first time.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

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

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.