Accurate Quotes

• The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Two, Analogies, Wave

  Werner Heisenberg (2013). “The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Views, Style

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• People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

  Dick Wolf

  New York, Communication, Mean

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• There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

  Lee Iacocca

  Leadership, Business, Knowledge

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• If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

  David O. Selznick

  Causes, Trouble, Ifs

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• I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

  Frank Lampard

  Thinking, Passing, Work Harder

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• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  Zach Wamp

  Kids, Sick, Parent

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• Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Ideas, People

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  William Moore Kelly

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Respect, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

  Pope Francis

  Literary Genre, Speech, Definitions

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.17, A&C Black

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• Science is simply common sense at its best.

  Thomas Huxley

  Motivational, Math, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.

  Asa Hutchinson

  Cat, Important, Watches

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• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  Karel Reisz

  Movie, Inspiring, Expression

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• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Successful, Tests, Accepted

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• Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

  Alexander John Ellis

  Purpose, Finance, Cents

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• Silence is so accurate.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Serenity, Favourite

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• Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

  Ken Burns

  Music, America, Jazz

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• You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

  Andrew Card

  Magazines, Newspapers

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• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Nature, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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• We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Cynical, Belief

  "Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.

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• Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

  Jonathan Coe

  Labels, Feels, Comfortable

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