Margin Of Error Quotes

#1. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

#2. The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

Calvin Trillin

#3. Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

Conan O'Brien

#5. A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

Jay Leno

#6. The world is not perfect and neither am I; I live with a margin of error.

Steven Toushin

#7. Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

Stephen Colbert

#8. My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.

Darynda Jones

#9. The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win ... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.

Hugh Douglas

#10. Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.

Roberto Bolano

#11. I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

Tatiana Maslany

#12. A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

Seth Klarman

#13. High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy ... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

Franco Modigliani

#14. It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

Alan Dapre

#15. I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Lincoln Chafee

#16. No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

Benjamin Graham

#17. If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

Jeff Schultz

#18. Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

Aaron Rodgers

#19. I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

George Ryan

#20. We each have the kind of children we deserve.

Nachman Of Breslov

#21. My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

Udonis Haslem

#22. A dream is only as powerful as the dreamer.

Bianca Frazier

#23. Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

Christine Baranski

#24. I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

Lemar

#25. The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Cory Booker

#26. I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.

Penelope Cruz

#27. I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I think I really would like to write for an artist, and obviously it really depends on the artist, and the sort of story I would do.

David Finch

#28. Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

George Edward Woodberry

#29. Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of fun.

Lance Berkman

#30. As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.

Tom Glavine

#31. In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

James Geary

#32. True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. I think of what it means to be a teenager in America, necessarily pushing boundaries, making expected mistakes. Here there is no margin for error: a mistake, no matter how insignificant, dashes any small hopes to break the cycle of poverty. Here in Kibera the world is relentless and unforgiving.

Jessica Posner

#34. God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Graham Greene

#35. I fulfilled all the requirements for Clara Barcelo to send me packing, but I preferred to think that her blindness afforded me a margin for error and that my crime - my complete and pathetic devotion to a woman twice my age, my intelligence, and my height - would remain in the dark.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#36. Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we should stop using them to serve search warrants for nonviolent crimes. They offer no margin for error.

Radley Balko

#37. 'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

Michael J. Fox