Quotes About Accuracy

I play with a lot of guys who say they're a five handicap, and they shoot 110. And then you play with guys who say they are a 20 and they shoot 75.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

Yes, I hit with heavy top-spin, but when you look at the little rackets I played with, the Maxply Dunlop, you had to hit the very centre all the time. I had my share of miss-hits.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

No domínio da vida quotidiana afigurava-se, sem dúvida, necessário, pelo menos às vezes, reflectir antes de falar, mas um membro do Partido chamado a emitir um juízo político ou ético devia ser capaz de disparar as opiniões correctas tão automaticamente como uma metralhadora dispara balas.

It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.

Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts.

It is usually known that newspapers do not say the truth, but it is also known that they cannot tell whoppers.

Beware of Goodreads quotations that come without a citation; they are often false.

to a time when truth exists

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four.

The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.

He preferido ser poco inteligible antes que inexacto

Ne bi imalo nikakvog smisla da je druga?ije. Sve su prou?ili, sve izra?unali, ne dolazi u obzir da se prevare, nitko nikada nije uo?io ni jednu pogrešku, makar samo za nekoliko centimetara ili milimetara. Svejedno uvijek osje?am nešto poput ushi?enja kad pomislim da su se u sredini tunela kroz planinu Cenis susreli francuski i talijanski kopa?i.

I hardly dare open my mouth, drawled Gideon, but there is much in what he says, Gaywood. I don't reckon myself a mean shot, but I would think twice before I engaged in pistol-play with Sale. And you won't hit him you know. He is such a little fellow, and you are such a damnably bad shot!

Tiffany never consciously deviated from the truth, but since she saw everything only as it affected herself the truth was apt to become somewhat distorted.

This is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not in the least an essential element of verity.

I'm married to a nurse, and she is really, really ardent that - in screenplays or movies that I've worked on, that all the medical aspects be properly presented. I think that filmmakers ought to be respectful of all fields and not just be lazy and put nonsense in movies because most people won't know the difference.