Accuracy Quotes - Page 2

• No me importa mentir, pero odio la inexactitud.

  Samuel Butler

  Odio, Mentira, Mente

  Cuadernos (1912) cap. 19

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• La exactitud es hermana gemela de la honradez; la inexactitud es pariente cercana de la falsedad.

  Tryon Edwards

  Brother, Truth, Honesty

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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• On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

  Charles Garfield

  Mean, Perfect, Strive

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• Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Distracción

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.61, A&C Black

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• De todos modos, la Historia es el estudio de la mentira, porque ningún testigo recuerda nunca los hechos con total exactitud, ni siquiera los testigos presenciales.

  Nancy Pickard

  Mentira, Historia, Sucesos

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• Feel is a lot more important than accuracy.

  Peter Mulvey

  Inspirational, Important, Feels

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• Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

  Nate Silver

  Two, Different, Way

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• One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

  Voltaire

  Interesting, Should, Aim

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• El juego de la vida es un juego de bumeranes. Nuestros pensamientos, actos y palabras vuelven a nosotros tarde o temprano con una precisión asombrosa.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Que mis silencios sean más precisos.

  Theodore Roethke

  Silence, May, Accurate

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.95, Copper Canyon Press

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• Si los hechos observados de indudable exactitud no encajan en ninguna de las alternativas que deja abiertas, el propio sistema necesita una reconstrucción.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Needs, Alternatives

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

  Martha Beck

  Love, Blind, Said

  "Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic".

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• One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

  Walther Nernst

  Science, Should, Cents

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• El primer deber de un periódico es ser exacto. Si es exacto, se deduce que es justo.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Firsts, Newspapers, Duty

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• Ningún pensador acertado juzgará a otra persona por lo que los enemigos de ésta digan de ella.

  Napoleon Hill

  Umpires, Judging, Enemy

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.212, Penguin

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• Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Science, People, Scare

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• What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Originality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.161

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• Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

  David Hume

  Sentimental, Vain, Cases

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• La locura es a menudo la lógica de una mente precisa sobrecargada de tareas.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Amor, Locura, Mente

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). "Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table", p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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• All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

  Alan Rickman

  Listening, Actors, Want

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• La precisión de un hombre es la mierda de otro.

  Alex Winter

  Men, Bullshit, One Man

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• From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

  Tom Stoppard

  Reality, Principles, Facts

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• En todas las frases puntiagudas hay que sacrificar cierto grado de precisión en aras de la concisión.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Degrees, Sentences

  'The Bravery of the English Common Soldier' in 'The British Magazine' January 1760 (Yale ed., vol. 10, p. 281)

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• It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'

  Terry Rossio

  Appreciation, Men, Optimism

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• Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Perfect, Tools

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories”, p.161

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