Quotessence
Home / Topics / Accuracy Quotes

Accuracy Quotes

Browse 329 quotes about Accuracy.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingWayKnowsHumansAccurateMeanMindDegreesFactsLanguageWritingHistoricalMayQualityShouldWorldDetailsFirstsIdeasImportantJournalismMenOrderScienceSometimesSpeedAbleGivingHonestyLittlesNewspapersPersonsStoriesActionHas BeensInformationMatterNeedsPrecisionTogetherWells

Accuracy Quotes

“I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunder­stood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it.”

ThinkingSelfCoursesExistenceLonelinessDependsFoundationPlantLeavingIncludingIsolationMelodyDisappointedContemplatingPollutionCarbonParliamentSlogansAccuracyOrganisationMembershipCarbon DioxideCo2
Author:Nick Minchin
Create image

“Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.”

DecisionStudyMovementParticularActivityEvidenceTradeDecision MakingMonkeysAccumulationAccuracyNeuronsTrade Offs
Author:Patricia Churchland
Create image

“It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail.”

PeopleIfsStillsBookLastsPastWinningEffortPrinciplesFailingMaterialsGood ThingsGood PeopleChaptersInherentAccuracy
Author:Frank Luntz
Create image

“I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).”

WayBelieveCompanyPracticePlayerMediaImpactEmbraceIncludingJournalismFairnessTransparencyAccuracyHybridImmediacyNew MediaBest PracticesInvestigative Journalism
Author:Arianna Huffington
Create image

“Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.”

DoeTogetherSocialProcessImaginationResponsibilityTeachingDemandStatementsEducateEnlighteningAccuracySocial LifePermanenceTeaching And LearningLiving TogetherVividness
Book:Democracy And Education
Create image

“Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”

ThinkingKnowsMenHas BeensArtActorsFoundSimpleKnowingImagineIgnoranceHigherMetsCreaturesDegreesAll ThingsImitationDeceivedWizardsAccuracyKnowledge And Ignorance
Author:Socrates
Create image

“I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.”

PeopleIfsWellsLooksKindPersonsHomeTogetherProcessAttitudeSuccessfulHugeTomorrowDegreesRelateRestaurantsIf I CouldAccuracyPrioritize
Author:John C. Maxwell
Create image

“The fact that we all leave behind seemingly insignificant clues behind ourselves - emotional DNA or what I call Small Data - which are able to describe with an insane accuracy who we really are, our personalities and desires. But even more how we all represents out of balances - perhaps I feel too overweight, feel alone or feel I haven't achieved what I'd hoped for when hitting 40. These imbalances are surprisingly visible when visiting consumers' homes - and surprisingly invisible when relaying on Big Data.”

FeelsFactsHomeBigsAbleDesireBehindsHavensEmotionalPersonalityBalanceInvisibleInsaneDataConsumersVisibleHittingClueDnaInsignificantAccuracyVisitingOverweightImbalance
Author:Martin Lindstrom
Create image

“There is extensive critical scholarship that provides illustrations in many areas of scholarship. I've discussed many cases myself, while also citing and often relying on academic studies that disentangle these webs of mystification woven for the general public. It's impossible to provide illustrations that would even approach accuracy, let alone carry any conviction, without going well beyond the bounds of this discussion.”

WellsCasesStudyImpossibleApproachAreasBoundsConvictionCriticalDiscussionAcademicScholarshipAccuracyWovenIllustrationGeneral PublicCiting
Author:Noam Chomsky
Create image

“Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.”

PeopleTwoMightHappensGamesBitsCenturyAdvantageTinyIceHockeySecondsCompetitorsBattlefieldsAccuracyWayneTwo DaysGretzky
Author:Kevin Maney
Create image

“In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.”

GivingHumansMayImportantHandsFightingReadingPerceptionWeaponsTendenciesParadoxBullsAccuracyUpper Hand
Author:Bette Ford
Create image

“Now in Wikipedia it's really interesting. If you put something incorrect up on Wikipedia within minutes there are people crawling all over that sentence saying, "This is wrong" or "I want to change this" or "You've got to include an amplification," et cetera. So there's this massive checks and balances that actually makes that accuracy work. This is the kind of model that we - and I'm not sure why no one's discussing this - that we now have to begin to apply to fake news.”

PeopleKindInterestingBalanceFakeNot SureAccuracyReally Interesting
Author:Jeremy Rifkin
Create image

“Actually, in a lot of circumstances, the Kalashnikov is poorly used by people who are not especially good shots, or who are outright bad shots. In these cases, the rifle's weaknesses emerge. As far as accuracy goes, the Kalashnikov is stubbornly mediocre, and the ease with which it can be fired on automatic means that many people fire it on automatic when they would be better served firing a single, aimed shot. Getting shot at by a sniper is a much different experience, and far more frightening. But either experience is, to borrow your word, memorable. These memories are pretty much all bad.”

PeopleMeanDifferentMemoriesCircumstancesWeaknessMemorableFrighteningMediocreAccuracy
Author:C. J. Chivers
Create image

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

MenCertainWomenIntuitionCertaintyAccurateMen WomenAccuracyInspirational WomenInternational Women's DayClever ManAbsolute CertaintyInternational Women DayWomans DayWomens DayHappy WomanHappy Womens DayClever Woman
Book: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
Create image

“Living with the exhortation "Be in the World But Not of It," stimulates the best of your analytical skills, deepens your intuition, eliminates destructive competition, develops your skills and creativity serially and painlessly, and develops concentration, efficiency, accuracy, and humor. And that's what a creative life is all about: making it a work of art.”

WorldArtCreativityCreativeCompetitionIntuitionConcentrationEfficiencyAccuracyCreative Life
Author:Michael Ray
Create image

“We are all trained to be data driven people, but no hard data exist about the future. Therefore, the only way to look into the future with any degree of accuracy is to use theory, statements of what causes what and why. If executives have the right theories in their heads, they can very quickly interpret market developments. They can identify what matters and why, and act accordingly. So we suggest decision-makers should start by gaining a deep understanding of the relevant collection of theories, and then be alert for signals that indicate certain types of developments.”

PeopleUnderstandingDrivenRelevantAccuracy
Author:Clayton Christensen
Create image

“There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."”

WritingSometimesValuesGoalWonderfulAgreeAcademicFreedom Of SpeechRelevanceAccuracyMatter Of Fact
Author:Joan Wallach Scott
Create image

“The Bible is an ancient text from an ancient context. We live thousands of miles and thousands of years away from that context, which also represents different cultures. Archaeology is a modern means of revealing both the lost record of the ancient world, and the historical and social world of the Bible. While the purpose of archaeology is not to prove the historicity of the people and events recorded in Scripture, it can help immeasurably to confirm the historical reality and accuracy of the Bible and to demonstrate that faith has a factual foundation.”

PeopleWorldMeanDifferentHelpingRealityPurposeCultureModernProveHistoricalAncientScriptureAccuracyFactualDifferent CulturesArchaeology
Author:Randall Price
Create image

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

GivingEndsDeathDiesDealsWiseJudgmentDeserveRingsJudgementFellowshipDeath PenaltyAccuracyCapital PunishmentFrodoVery WiseFellowship Of The RingMiddle EarthLord Of The RingAgainst Death Penalty
Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
Create image

“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”

WorldIdeasForceSocialWatchesSawsHeardObjectsTaughtColorPoetTheoryBirthBlindIntuitionExcellentVisualsProfessorsSpheresGiftedLecturesAccuracy
Author:Thomas Hardy
Create image

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

ThinkingMenInspirationalHeartEarthPainSufferingSadnessSorrowSadIntelligencePunishmentInevitableGreat MenReally GreatDeep ThoughtAccuracyInevitabilityPain And SufferingSufferersCrime And PunishmentBig HeartLong SufferingPain And SorrowSuffering And PainDeepest FeelingsPain SufferingRaskolnikovDeep Heart
Book:The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
Create image

“No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.”

ShouldWritingI CanCountryEnoughPastYoungMastersJudgmentLowsFairsExpectedAdmireMagazinesSensualBotherProvokingAccuracyEmulateMammalsSensuousFree CountryChuckles
Book:Lolita
Create image

“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”

IfsWritingLittlesLongMadeMatterMistakeEffectsProduceReaderConsequenceDetailsDramaticWhat MattersAccuracyBad Mistake
Book:The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic
Create image