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Quotes About Correction

Resentment caused by a brash order may last a long time—even if the order was given to correct an obviously bad situation.
~ Dale Carnegie
If you want to help others to improve, remember…     Principle 8 Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
~ Dale Carnegie
You correct an error by bringing truth to it.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
~ Wendell Berry
If a man burns to learn and sets himself to comparing his ideas with experimental results in order that he may correct those ideas, every scientific man will recognize him as a brother, no matter how small his knowledge may be.
~ Charles Sanders Pierce
No, it's not gun-holder, it's Gunhilda.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
The degree to which a society is civilized can be judged by entering its prisons.
~ Hampton Sides
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth
~ Hans Reichenbach
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
~ Harriet Martineau
Thank you, Pig Keeper, Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.
~ james riley
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
~ Jane Austen
I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.
~ Jane Austen
Look!" I cried. "A moose—two mooses." Wynn smiled and nodded his head as he followed my pointing finger. He turned to me and said simply, "I must correct you, Elizabeth, so you won't be laughed at.—Moose is both singular and plural.
~ Janette Oke
The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.
~ Marcia Gay Harden
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
~ Milton Friedman
Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.
~ Danny Silk
If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
~ Randall Terry
Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.
~ Rock Hudson
Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.
~ Tim Vivian
Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" The entire bridge had gone deathly still. Colclazure swallowed again, his face starting to go pale. "No, sir." "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
~ Timothy Zahn
Es un proceso llamado Recuperación del Servicio -, dijo Mort. - Cuando algo no ocurre del modo que alguien lo espera, el reparto hace un esfuerzo adicional para corregirlo. No quieren que nadie salga de aquí desilusionado, por lo que tienen la práctica de hacer que las cosas regresen a un estado de equilibrio.
~ Tom Connellan
I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.
~ John Dykstra