Accurate Quotes

• Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, People

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Firsts, Newspapers, Duty

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• Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Imagination, Facts, Sometimes

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.95, Macmillan

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• Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Thinking, Past, Care

  "Curbing Nuclear Proliferation: An Interview with Mohamed ElBaradei". Interview with Miles Pomper and Paul Kerr, www.armscontrol.org. October 21, 2003.

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• A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Appreciation, Wings, Needs

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• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Cost, Flaws, Fraud

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• I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

  Jon Crosby

  Thinking, People, Titles

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• While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

  Samuel Wilson

  Environmental, Doe, Size

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• Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

  Sharon Olds

  Writing, Wells, One Thing

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

  Arthur Miller

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Truth, Believe, Add

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 9 Aug. 1964

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• No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

  Michael Scheuer

  Dog, Exercise, Thinking

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• Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Long

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

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• The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

  Agatha Christie

  Children, Mother And Daughter, Years

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1969). “MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY”

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• Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

  Bill Walsh

  Inspirational, Sports, Gratitude

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• All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

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• And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Next, Interest

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

  Gregory Bateson

  Mean, Numbers, Next

  "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

  Max Beerbohm

  Giving, Needs, Brilliant

  The Yellow Book, Jan. 1895

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• There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

  Chi McBride

  School, Thinking, High School

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• With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

  Ben Kingsley

  Exercise, Voice, Narration

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• As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

  Justin Timberlake

  Want, Concerned, Percent

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• In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Details, World

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• Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

  Herman Cain

  Media, Order, Needs

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• I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, People, Democracy

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