Best 89 quotes in «accurate quotes» category

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

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

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

I don't see Jian [Ghomeshi] as an enemy. What [Marie Henein] was saying about how I hate him - I'm like, that's not accurate.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

I think if you look back at my projections and my prognostications, they turn out to be very, very accurate.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Only accurate rifles are interesting

Order - the accurate arrangement of things - increases productivity. Productivity decides rewards.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.

Silence is so accurate.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

The comforting thing to the horse is, is as you become more and more accurate, he knows you’re aware of him, and pretty soon because of that he’s aware of you more and more of the time.