Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Accuracy builds credibility.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

Consistency for me is everything.

I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.

Always be consistent.

You can not define being exactly on time.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Correct" is a property of small systems.

With human inspectors, it's difficult to get even the same person to make consistent judgments.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

Cam Newton, his best throw is better than anybody's best throw. I'm gonna say that right off the bat. But I will take consistency over volatile play any day of the week.

As far as being accurate goes, I think you either are or you aren't. I don't think you can really become accurate.

My game is characterised by consistency.

We think continuity's important.

I always know what time it is.

The most important thing with me is consistency.

I just show up every day.

I want to be that consistent all year. I want to play the same way all 82 games. I want to be consistent every night.