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Quotes About Correction

I've made so many mistakes and I always thought I'd have time to correct them!
~ Jack Bauer
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
~ Mark Twain
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
~ William Petty
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.
~ Ava DuVernay
The Course teaches that the Holy Spirit was created in the moment when the first fearful thought was thought. As perfect love, God corrects all mistakes the moment they occur. He couldn't force us back to love, because love doesn't force. It does, however, create alternatives. The Holy Spirit is God's alternative to fear.
~ Marianne Williamson
His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.
~ Marianne Williamson
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
~ Marianne Williamson
A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one's own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true.
~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Escribir novelas es un acto de rebelión contra la realidad, contra Dios, contra la creación de Dios que es la realidad. Es una tentativa de corrección, cambio o abolición de la realidad real, de su sustitución por la realidad ficticia que el novelista crea.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say, unspeakable.
~ Shirley Jackson
The fact is, if his majesty had been a little boy, he would have been whipped and sent to bed for the sulks;
~ Sidney Lanier
Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
~ Sigmund Freud
A mistake isn't a mistake." Guy pauses. "Unless it can't be put right." As he says the words, his eyes seem to hold an extra significance.
~ Sophie Kinsella
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.
~ Michael Meade
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
~ John Nelson Darby
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
~ John Ruskin
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence
~ John Stuart Mill
İnsan hatalar?n? tart??ma ve deneyim yoluyla düzeltebilir. Yaln?zca deneyimle deÄŸil. Tart??ma da olmak zorundad?r ki deneyimin nas?l yorumlanaca?? gösterilebilsin.
~ John Stuart Mill
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
~ John Wooden
Once I thought forgiveness was great, now I see repentance to be even greater for it is life-giving. These United States are strong because they have the capacity to see and correct mistakes, to change and grow.
~ Elizabeth Yates
We need the encouragement, correction, and loving involvement of others who are willing to risk everything for the sake of the beauty of his bride.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Blaming yourself or others for what went wrong is a waste of time and energy. So, if you think you have done anything or anyone wrong. Just go ahead and fix it up or correct it or rather correct yourself in order not to repeat it again. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George