In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an...

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

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that ‘other’ cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to...

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Right now, I’m taking advantage of the high-accuracy data Laura and Susanne collect. But the Engineer’s Office and my department already have plans to acquire GPS equipment for expanded data collection.

Kepler’s laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy...

Speed and accuracy are essential factors we use in evaluating distribution process improvements. Our mission is to optimize our operations to ensure quality, accurate, next day deliveries for customer orders.

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

It is a very laborious process, but we feel accuracy is more important than expediency. I’m not going to apologize for taking our time and making sure we get it right.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a...

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man’s biography regarding God’s promised experiences and truth for him – his individual, unique...

Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating....

She said she loved me, and I didn’t believe it for a minute. Maybe 59 seconds, but not a whole minute. I may be gullible, but I’m not without an accurate way to measure time.

It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

It’s simple, it’s not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to...

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing – lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

Michelle’s strengths as a player are her accuracy and precision. She has an all court game, plays the ball very tight and can hit winners on open balls. Her excellent footwork and balance allow her...

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....

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties…Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth,...

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Son of Manana.” Of course it isn’t accurate, because I’m the father of yesterday.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy – just like in business.

Don’t go in for the “yellowish” if what you need is “yellow”. The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the accuracy of your demand. Never settle for the less; Go for the exact...

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

Being able to do this gives customers much greater confidence in the accuracy of their solutions. They can study multiple coupling with simultaneous convergence.

The Black Book Commercial Index provides greater accuracy, coverage and accessibility than current industry standards and serves as a common yardstick for measuring remarketing performance across all channels.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)

It really depends on what degree of accuracy you’re looking for. If it’s just crashing a plane, that takes no more competency than crashing a bus. There is software available. It comes up and it’s...

You’ve got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it’s a novel, they know someone’s made it up and they know it’s not real,...

I don’t know about his place-kicking. He’s strong-legged, but I don’t know about his accuracy. But it wouldn’t shock me at all to see him kicking off in the first game of the year.

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation,...

Our shape was there but our accuracy let us down,

[The EU executive will] at technical…level find out what the truth is in these stories, … In that sense, we will check the accuracy of those reports..then further define our stance.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

It is clear that parents of children attending government-owned schools in Colorado cannot rely on state reports to determine whether their children are safe. Parents deserve consistency and accuracy when it comes to the state’s...

ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I’ve mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was...

They have done a very good job here. They have improved the accuracy from the tee to-40 percent. It’s a big improvement.

a distinction between being accurate and being authentic. There’s no such thing as 100-percent historical accuracy.

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

It’s not like Augusta, where rough is such a big factor. Here, both length and accuracy can be a huge asset. I haven’t had as many chances here as I would have liked or would...

Marshall has improved tremendously in the accuracy of his passes. The decision-making of both guys has been good throughout training camp.

It’s the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That’s what sets him apart,

It is up to the congressional hearings to make a detailed estimation as to the accuracy of representations made by HHS as to robust, viable and diverse lines, … bovine serum.

The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who...