Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to… — Dusty Baker Copy Share Image
The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics].… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness." ( On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers )” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
I always sidefooted the ball as I wanted to keep the accuracy on it but I was quite fortunate that I could… — Matt Le Tissier Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image