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Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work. — Arthur C. Nielsen

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

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur C. Nielsen

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

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

Speed masks accuracy — Derek Tate

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

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. — Wallace Stevens

The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. — John Peers

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it. — Alan Furst

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

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy. — Ava DuVernay

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things. — Nate Silver

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn? — Maya Lin

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst

HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy. — Shawn Michaels

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

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Adlai E. Stevenson

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

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy. — Jack Brickhouse

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all. — Malcolm Gladwell

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses. — Nancy Pickard

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

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration. — Criss Jami

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive. — Niels Bohr

Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius. — Stephen Richards

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

Try to be accurate about stuff. — Anne Enright

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

Consistency and accuracy instills believability — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy. — Ramsay MacMullen

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 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

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I wrote. Something. Yes.
And you were truthful.
No.
You weren't truthful?
I was accurate. — Richard Flanagan

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

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes. — Allen Lacy

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. — Robert Anton Wilson

Truth is accuracy. Without accuracy, you can't expect to manifest large, specific changes in your life. — Augusten Burroughs

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another. — J.D. Greear

I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy. — Charles Darwin

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

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

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. — Bob Woodward

Accuracy is essential to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy. — Pam Houston

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. — Craig Venter

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy. — David Dreman

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. — John Ruskin

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. — Robert Breault

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, — Charles Dickens

That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth. — Mary Renault

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. — Alan Rickman

Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness. — Larry Sanger

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same. — PZ Myers

Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of. — Edmund Burke

History wasn't precisely revered for its accuracy at the best of times. — Gail Carriger

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God. — Adrian Rogers

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

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. — Craig Venter

Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple — Agatha Christie

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled. — Harold E. Varmus

Well, with facts what's important is their weight and accuracy. Warmth is secondary. — Haruki Murakami

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

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy. — Paul David Tripp

One of the most confusing issues in channeling is that of accuracy. — Shepherd Hoodwin

Mona began firing with deadly accuracy, also with a stream of Spanish words that Cosmo suspected were not taught in kindergarten. — Eoin Colfer

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. — Wyatt Earp

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards

He was continually surprised at the speed and accuracy of her creepiness. She was like some creepiness child prodigy — Christopher Moore

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit. — Alex Winter

Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy. — Aman Jassal

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

he knew that bad premonitions have a far higher accuracy rate than good ones. — Haruki Murakami

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

Accuracy first," I used to tell the writers. "We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately! — Sefton Delmer

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. — Ben Jonson

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle

...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'. — Robert Wade

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Where I fail in accuracy, I hope I make up for it in plausibility. — Elizabeth Wein

I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others.
-Bunny — E.W. Hornung

The tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth. — Richard K. Morgan

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong. — E.J. Dionne Jr.

Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks. — Dick Keyes

Unanimity is not a guarantee of accuracy. — Paul F. Crawford

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. — Josh Lewsey

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. — Ezra Pound

Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. — Wyatt Earp

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. — Rudyard Kipling

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair

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

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