Accuracy Quotes

• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

  Wyatt Earp

  Morning, Live Life, Quality

  "Playing loose and fast with the truth" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.

  Larry Sanger

  Quality, Determined, Completeness

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• Accuracy builds credibility.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Trust

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• One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  Grace Hopper

  Women, Experts, Measurement

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• Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

  Wyatt Earp

  Fighting, Gun, Needs

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• A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats can sniff it out with 100 percent accuracy but they prefer to watch you die.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dog, Cancer, Cat

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• Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

  Maryrose Wood

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

  Arthur Nielsen

  Details, Watches

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• Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

  Wallace Stevens

  Science, Thinking, Observation

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.240, Vintage

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• Accuracy is essential to beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.351, Modern Library

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• Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Tasks, Looks

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.5, Jaico Publishing House

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• Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Brother, Honesty, Twins

  "Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged". Book by Charles Simmons, p. 20. Chapter: "Accuracy", 1852.

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• 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

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• Feel is a lot more important than accuracy.

  Peter Mulvey

  Inspirational, Important, Feels

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• Try to be accurate about stuff.

  Anne Enright

  Trying, Stuff, Accurate

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

  Niels Bohr

  Clarity, Exclusive, Statements

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

  Shawn Michaels

  Boys, Wwe, Honest

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

  John Peers

  Peers, Answers, Helping

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• But 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mean, People, Pilots

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

  Maya Lin

  Remember, Ifs

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

  Ben Jonson

  Relax, Ruins, Reputation

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• 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

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Business

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• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  Samuel Butler

  Hate, Lying, Mind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 19

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• Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Language

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.63

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• The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Insanity, Curiosity

  "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 193.

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