Best 65 quotes in «accuracy quotes» category

You can flatten the paper and try and make it as straight as you want, but it will never be perfect again.

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

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.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

May my silences become more accurate.

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

Kepler's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy is due to the facts, that the planets are not of inappreciable mass, that, in consequence, they disturb each other's orbits about the Sun, and, by their action on the Sun itself, cause the periodic time of each to be shorter than if the Sun were a fixed body, in the subduplicate ratio of the mass of the Sun to the sum of the masses of the Sun and Planet; these errors are appreciable although very small, since the mass of the largest of the planets, Jupiter, is less than 1/1000th of the Sun's mass.

Don't go in for the "yellowish" if what you need is "yellow". The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the accuracy of your demand. Never settle for the less; Go for the exact thing!

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Consistency and accuracy instills believability

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

I looked more closely at what I considered to be the most significant information regarding the Great Pyramid, which was the accuracy with which it was built. It soon became obvious to me that the researchers on both sides of the issue were sympathetic to the craftspeople involved in building the pyramids. But the researchers were not craftspeople themselves, and they did not have the perspective gained through years of experience working with their hands and with machinery. Having that experience myself, I have some very strong opinions regarding the level of manufacturing expertise practiced by the ancient Egyptians. They were not primitive by any means, and their craftsmanship and precision would be an extreme challenge to duplicate today.

I hear you say: ‘All that is not /fact/ : it is poetry’. Nonsense! Bad poetry is false, I grant; but nothing is truer than true poetry. And let me tell the scientific men that the artists are much finer and more accurate observers than they are, except of the special minutiae that the scientific man is looking for.

I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database – flat and full of useless info.

I tell my students that they don't need to be accurate to communicate. They do need to be accurate to be respected.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness." (On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.

In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an individual. Similarly, no life is ever lived according to aesthetic proportions. The "plot" of a biography is superficially based on the birth, life and death of the subject; "character," in the vision of the author. Both are as much creations of the biographer, as they are of a novelist. We content ourselves with "authorized fictions.