Accuracy Quotes

204 quotes by 185 authors

It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it… — Terry Rossio
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is… — Pope Pius IX
We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the superior accuracy of… — Jeff Cooper
New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. — Josh Lewsey
You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's… — Jonathan Lynn
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown. — Robert Breault
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… — Gregory Rabassa
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. — Alan Rickman
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
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of… — Margery Allingham
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… — Howard Gardner
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. — Carl Sagan
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… — Charles Lindbergh
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking… — Allan Gurganus
To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were… — Carl Rogers
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and… — Carl Rogers
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

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