Quotes About Correction

When should we try to fix and when should we not?

In preschool, when somebody hurts us, the teacher sees to it that the person who hurt us apologizes. It is ingrained in us from a very early age that inflicted pain or wrongdoing or unfairness should and will be corrected. Note the passive phrasing: "be corrected." We will not, as children, take control and make sure these amends are delivered in a timely fashion.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

What the Shoshones valued above all else, and depended on absolutely, was the bravery of their young men. Their childrearing system was designed to produce brave warriors. "They seldom correct their children," Lewis wrote, "particularly the boys who soon became masters of their own acts. They give as a reason that it cows and breaks the Sperit of the boy to whip him, and that he never recovers his independence of mind after he is grown." In

He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls, sir, didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of my matches and tried to burn it down. I corrected them. I corrected them most harshly. And when my wife tried to stop me from doing my duty, I corrected her.

ignorance to a certain degree can be corrected but, it shall always be an effort in futility to correct a certain degree of ignorance!

He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.

To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.

Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.

On the surface, these stories of correction might seem different, but really, at their core, they are all the same. To be abnormal is to be delegitimized as a full human being, and to be made normal through remediation and intervention hurts. When a human being is pathologized, they become less than human, and then we humans do terrible things.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

Don't lean in so much," Lockwood advised. "You were a bit off balance there. Try holding your arm forward a little more. Like this.…" He turned my wrist, and altered my stance by gently adjusting the position of my waist. "See? Is that better?" "Yes.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

Escrever é corrigir a vida

el secreto para la curación de cualquier tipo, es corregir las condiciones que impiden el fluir natural de la vida transformando los estados de conciencia.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.

Never chide for Anger, but Instruction. 290. He that corrects out of Passion, raises Revenge sooner than Repentance.

In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it's because you're forced to have a certain humility if you're not an affluent white man.