#accurately

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#act #borrow #borrowing #examine #him

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#does #explicit #field #himself #inhabit

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#describe #emotions #ever #far #i

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#average #challenges #fairly #flow #higher

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#conducted #elections #fairly #know #voters

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#because #economic #highly #i #japan

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

#accurately #cannot #conflicts #debates #frame

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

#case #dishonest #give #honest #how

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#business #choices #either #first #get