Accurate Quotes

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

I don't see Jian [Ghomeshi] as an enemy. What [Marie Henein] was saying about how I hate him - I'm like, that's not accurate.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

I have always been obsessed by the company and making sure that the company is the most contemporary, the most modern of all the players, and delivering the most accurate service for our client.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.