Accuracy Quotes

• 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.

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

  Arthur Nielsen

  Details, Watches

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

  Niels Bohr

  Clarity, Exclusive, Statements

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

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strive, Again And Again, Gym

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• A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Intuition, Absolute Certainty

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Journalism, Virtue

  "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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

  Maya Lin

  Remember, Ifs

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• In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

  Stanislav Grof

  Memories, Past, Details

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• Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Morning, Funny Motivational, Clock

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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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