Quotes About Course correction

In the same manner as the sea, those who are swept away from the course leading to the harbor correct their aim by a clear mark, looking for a lighthouse on high, or a certain mountain appearing. In the same manner Scripture by the example of Abraham and Sarah will direct us once more to the safe harbor of the divine will for those who have drifted out in the sea of life with a mind lacking a navigator.

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.

Si no corregimos la dirección en la que vamos, acabaremos en el lugar de donde venimos.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. —CHINESE PROVERB

If you look over in that direction, like two hundred yards, you will see some birds walking. Never drive the boat toward where the birds are walking. First rule of navigation.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate, without them what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we wouldn't have veered off course, we wouldn't be who we are today.

An automatic guidance system corrects its course from negative feedback data. It acknowledges errors in order to correct them and stay on course. So must you. Admit your mistakes and errors, but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward. In dealing with other people, try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.

Even if we manage to get rid of Trump [...] the political left still needs a course correction. We need to stop devouring our own and canceling ourselves. We need fewer sensitivity readers and more empathy as a matter of course. We need to recognize that to deny people their complications and contradictions is to deny them their humanity.

Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."