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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. -- Wallace Stevens
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. -- Tryon Edwards
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. -- David Hume
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. -- Wyatt Earp
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail. -- Stanislav Grof
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. -- Saul Bellow
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things. -- Howard Gardner
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' -- Paul Watzlawick
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one. -- Lion Feuchtwanger
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. -- Sidney Sheldon
Accuracy builds credibility. -- Jim Rohn
Accuracy is essential to beauty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive. -- Niels Bohr
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. -- Arthur Nielsen
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty inaccuracy, of dishonesty -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. -- Rudyard Kipling
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. -- Robert Anton Wilson
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. -- Samuel Johnson
Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. -- Craig Venter
Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. -- Paul Dickson
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. -- Alan Rickman
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. -- Tryon Edwards
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction -- Charles Revson
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. -- Charles Revson
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy? -- Henry Martyn
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. -- John Ruskin
The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. -- John Peers
Accuracy first," I used to tell the writers. "We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately! -- Sefton Delmer
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. -- Martha Beck
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. -- Talcott Parsons
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. -- Thomas Huxley
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. -- Yuan T. Lee
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. -- Carl Bernstein
The single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Donâ??t worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all. -- David Gerrold
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled. -- Freya Stark
Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate, aircraft crash. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy. -- Charles Lindbergh
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. -- Carl Sagan
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted. -- Harold Nicolson
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. -- Wyatt Earp
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. -- Arthur Nielsen
Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work. -- Arthur C. Nielsen
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. -- Ben Jonson
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair -- Herbert Bayard Swope
It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. -- Peter Diamandis
I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy. -- Dusty Baker
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength. -- Annie Besant
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy. -- Anne Carson
Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision. -- Lewis B. Smedes
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. -- Leroy Hood
One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy. -- Max Levchin
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. -- Richard Dawkins
It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles, with no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet he did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style. -- Martha Stewart
Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama. -- Tony Kushner
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image. -- Brian Greene
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Consistency and accuracy instills believability -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness. -- Larry Sanger
One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit. -- Alex Winter
Feel is a lot more important than accuracy. -- Peter Mulvey
Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God. -- Adrian Rogers
Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work. -- Arthur C. Nielsen
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. -- Ezra Pound
For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy. -- Pam Houston
One of the most confusing issues in channeling is that of accuracy. -- Shepherd Hoodwin
Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy. -- Ramsay MacMullen
Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy. -- Mark Haddon
History wasn't precisely revered for its accuracy at the best of times. -- Gail Carriger
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. -- Walther Nernst
No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating. -- Walther Nernst
At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy. -- Ava DuVernay
Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business. -- Shay Mizrahi
Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice, -- Marie Colvin
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. -- A. O. Scott
Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. -- Nate Silver
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients. -- A. J. P. Taylor
The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy. -- Hugh Kingsmill
HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy. -- Shawn Michaels
...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards. -- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. -- PZ Myers
Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled. -- Harold E. Varmus
Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy. -- Paul David Tripp
The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change. -- James Hansen
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses. -- Nancy Pickard
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. -- Carl Sagan
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. -- Thomas Carlyle
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry. -- Wyatt Earp
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. -- Robert Breault
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another. -- J.D. Greear
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. -- Hugh Blair
A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness -- John Andrew Holmes
When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy. -- Parul Sehgal
It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy. -- Patrick Rothfuss
The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy. -- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature. -- Christopher Langan
Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal. -- Lionel Shriver
History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy. -- David Dreman
New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. -- Josh Lewsey
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same. -- Dean Williams
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. --
In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England? -- Jane Wilson-Howarth
The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations. -- David Hume
In software, speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware, if you screw it up, you're dead. So accuracy really matters. -- Reid Hoffman
The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science. -- Nathan Seiberg
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it. -- Henry David Thoreau
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. -- Charles Osgood
He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me. -- Veronica Roth
I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy. -- Bill Callahan
The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. -- Erica Bauermeister
The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts. -- William Shawn
We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library. -- Robin Sharma
The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins. -- Charles Colson
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. -- Thomas R. Marshall
Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts. -- Jack Newfield
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. -- Hugh Blair
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets. -- Gregory Rabassa

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