Quotes About Accuracy

I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.

Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that are true and 'facts' that are not.

Many news organizations have come to resemble the fact-starved blogs they once took pains to remain separate from.

Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

The press has a right to go out and write stories... but I think similarly, and what Donald Trump has proven... is that when people are wrong, he's going to hold them accountable, and he's going to correct the record.

a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth

How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?

I]t contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not write, and very little indeed of what he did.

not all quotes on the internet are real

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

I'm starting to think that pure truth is impossible, and that all narrators and all people are at least a little unreliable.

Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. -William Randolph Hearst

Precision in language was the key to clarity. Specificity

Those hours of opium happiness which the Doctor and I spent together in secret were regulated with a scientific accuracy. We did not blindly smoke the drug of paradise, and leave our dreams to chance. While smoking, we carefully steered our conversation through the brightest and calmest channels of thought.

That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.

Ruth puts in all the tiddley bits and the expression and doesn't mind how many wrong notes she strikes, but with Jane it is accuracy or nothing. I don't know which Chopin would have hated more," Eleanor said, folding bread and butter into a thickness that would match her appetite.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.