Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Emsley

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

The decisions are comparatively simple, the possibilities for learning and imitation are unusually large, the compensation for coaches who make the decisions is extremely high, and the market for their services is intensely competitive. Despite these forces, the standard assumption that agents maximize simple objective functions fails to lead to reasonably accurate descriptions of behavior.

Scott Cohen

Today's tracking technologies can generate significant cost savings derived from more accurate data collection. This includes the passive collection of data concurrent with the seamless flow of patient information throughout the hospital experience. The goal when implementing any of these systems should include automatic information collection to allow for improving quality of care, improving productivity, reducing redundancy in processes, decreasing errors, reducing overall operating costs, while increasing rapid availability of essential information, all without placing additional demands on the caregiver.

True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it's important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.

Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.

Lisa Vanderpump

You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the funny side, I work hard, and I try to be honest and just call it how it is.

Robert Esche

We had almost 60 (blocks or misses), and that was a bigger problem for us. We missed the net on too many shots that all year we hit the net on. We shot it high and wide off the wing where we had been accurate all year.

We wanted to make sure that when people left, they felt sure that the game was fairly and accurately portrayed.

We wanted to identify accurate and reliable technology and add more interest and excitement into the game for our fans, and we think this does both.

We've looked at a number of different alternatives and ways to measure rollover predictability. There are rollovers you can create on the test track and there are mathematical formulas. We're still trying to see if one is more accurate than the other and then we'll decide which is fairest to use.

We've learned numerous times that when an executive is quoted saying something as bad as that, there's some context in the quote that's missing. Yes, it stunned us when it came out. But we understood there was a story behind it all that was not being accurately reported.

We have to identify our best suppliers, know their strengths and weaknesses, and meet with them regularly to share this information. The linchpin is having accurate data and key performance indicators.

Using archaeological and anatomical science rather than artistic interpretation makes this the most accurate likeness ever created,

Pat Barker

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.

With some other technologies in the high-tech world, you can actually very accurately simulate it on the computer and know what you're building before you build it. In RF, you can't do that. You're not relying on the software to do the work for you. It's really the engineer's brainpower.

We are excited to welcome Tom to our team. Tom has spent the past six years with two of the leading professional organizations involved in journalism training and research - the Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ) and the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ). NLGJA is looking forward to his leadership in helping the industry recognize that fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues is at the core of good journalism.

Daniel H. Pink

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

It is entirely possible to present science accurately and have a hit show.

Howard Rheingold

Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.

Howard Rheingold

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.

We paid for the Census Bureau to give us an accurate count. We don't believe that's an accurate count.

We owe it to the people to get an accurate counting of what they thought. ...What I want is the people satisfied because if the people aren't satisfied, it's a bummer.

While some people might question the importance of a correction that changes the long-term trend by only 0.035ºC per decade, for us the most important thing is to produce a climate dataset that is as accurate and reliable as humanly possible.

Robert D. Hare

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Alex Berenson

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

We've been coaching course management, and he really took it to heart on this course. When I was watching him make his club selections, I couldn't have changed anything. He chose accurate clubs instead of distance clubs.

Chris Lehane

The Gore campaign wants the will of the people to be reflected accurately and completely, which will be guaranteed by a manual recount, while the Bush campaign is trying to do everything possible to stop that from happening,

We are sending out the surveys to those on a randomly generated list so we can get a more accurate representation of the greater community's input and ideas on the project. This project needs to fit the community's needs, so the more input we get earlier on, the better.

Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Isaac Newton

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

Bill Nelson

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

Edward Rutherfurd

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.