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Quotes About Correction

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.
~ Anonymous
My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
~ Anonymous
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
~ Anonymous
Viver é como escrever sem corrigir.
~ António Lobo Antunes
The good news, however, is that the self also has made reason and scientific observation possible, and reason and science, in turn, have been gradually correcting the misleading intuitions prompted by the unaided self. Overcoming
~ António R. Damásio
An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.
~ Miranda July
Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.
~ Troy Carter
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
~ Michel Foucault
The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
~ Randy Neugebauer
I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.
~ Susan Rosenberg
If you do a mistake, I think you should get punished.
~ S. Sreesanth
The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
~ Blake Farenthold
To me, if you don't get something right, the biggest thing you need to do is recognize it and fix it.
~ Michael G. Rubin
We follow the rules and some guys make some mistakes and we gotta correct those mistakes. We follow the rules and we do it the right way at Florida and we have to do a better job of correcting some of the people making mistakes.
~ Urban Meyer
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.
~ J. M. G. Le Clezio
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
~ Marie Windsor
And I think the only way you're going to improve US foreign policy and set a sound course for the future is if you're willing to look back at what went wrong before.
~ Max Boot
He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise
~ Frank Herbert
I never enter any trade without correction
~ Frank Miller
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
~ Yehuda Berg
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.
~ Wole Soyinka
And it is essential that therapists arrive at this knowledge, for the world view of patients is always an essential part of their problems, and a correction in their world view is necessary for their cure. So I say to those I supervise: "Find out your patients' religions even if they say they don't have any.
~ M. Scott Peck