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Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me? -- Chuck Klosterman
Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments. -- John Gierach
I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media. -- Rush Limbaugh
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. -- Geddy Lee
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. -- Heinz R. Pagels
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. -- John Ralston Saul
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. -- Tryon Edwards
Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success. -- Eric Ries
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. -- Eckhart Tolle
I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things. -- Karen Gillan
Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. -- Jon Meacham
Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs. -- Douglas Rushkoff
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. -- Polly Toynbee
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. -- Joseph Pulitzer
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. -- James A. Forbes
Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us. -- Karen Armstrong
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. -- Michael Pollan
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. -- Anne Wilson Schaef
To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly. Looking at behavior alone can miss a vital piece of the puzzle and provide an incomplete, or even a misleading, picture of the child's problems. -- Aditi Shankardass
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. -- Edward de Bono
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. -- Edward Weston
Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. -- John Sununu
I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. -- Paul Feig
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. -- Ann Hood
You cannot accurately remember color ... -- Jay Maisel
A leader should accurately discern deceit. -- Sunday Adelaja
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately -- Mikhail Botvinnik
If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn? -- Maya Lin
The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you! -- Mike Mentzer
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors. -- Thomas Sowell
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance. -- W. Edwards Deming
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. -- Stanley Crouch
"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming". -- Vaclav Klaus
Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely. -- Zoe Saldana
You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that. -- Carrie Fisher
Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying. -- Eoin Colfer
Coming up with the answers quickly and accurately is what counts the most. -- Toru Kumon
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. -- Margaret Mead
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. -- Frederick William Robertson
A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately. -- Yancy Butler
If you look accurately into your life , it is full of fun and enjoyment. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence. -- Joao Magueijo
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. -- Olive Schreiner
Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could. -- Elizabeth Smart
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. -- Anais Nin
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. -- Coretta Scott King
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. -- Claire Messud
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it. -- A.S. King
I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I. -- Pablo Picasso
As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. -- Michael Connelly
I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can. -- Francis Bacon
Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately? -- Michael Crichton
You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them! -- Viktor Schauberger
For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves? -- Faye Moskowitz
Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes. -- Allen Lacy
Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured. -- Mark Skousen
Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you -- Mother Teresa
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance. -- W. H. Auden
We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. -- Alice Mattison
The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure. -- James Cook
Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God. -- Bill Johnson
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions. -- Gerald Jampolsky
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately. -- Mark Dvoretsky
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. -- Heinz R. Pagels
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. -- Blaise Pascal
We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing. -- Katharine Hayhoe
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. -- Voltaire
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged. -- Rollo May
Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does. -- Virginia Axline
You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. -- Walter F. Mondale
Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. -- Ken Jennings
One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another. -- Lewis Carroll
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. -- Frederick Sommer
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men. -- Salman Rushdie
Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet -- Harriet Lerner
Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders. -- Michelle Tea
I think the Republican Party is accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy -- Bob Herbert
There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart. -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape? -- Deborah Tall
Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life. -- Steve McCurry
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being. -- Franz Kafka
There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance. -- Yoshihiko Noda
I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself. -- Chester Brown
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day. -- Eugene V. Debs
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately. -- Gordon Bell
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. -- Abraham Lincoln
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. -- Brian Tracy
Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences. -- Dana Spiotta
A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate. -- Paul Eldridge
Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem. -- McGeorge Bundy
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it. -- Edmund Burke
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers. -- Samuel Johnson
When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao. -- Laozi
In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth. -- Mona Simpson
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count. -- Robert A. Heinlein
A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity. -- David Allen
We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality. -- Orlando Rodriguez
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately. -- Frederick Lenz
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. -- Oscar Wilde
That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget. -- Liza Cody
It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough. -- Arthur David Ritchie
Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form. -- Jim Rowe
There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately. -- Sofia Coppola
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. -- William Whewell
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their critical thinking. -- David Harsanyi
The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time. -- Beau Willimon
[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources. -- George Gilder
We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any. -- N. T. Wright
The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be. -- Brian Tracy

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