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Quotes About Correction

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.
~ King Vidor
If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
~ Roger Babson
Own the error and correct it," he said. Hamood had a thousand proverbs and maxims. His favorite was Keep the money in your hand, never in your heart. He used that one a lot.
~ Dave Eggers
If we truly love others, we'll do all we can to rescue them from error. Nor is it loving to fail to point out where friends, acquaintances, or even enemies have gone astray.
~ Dave Hunt
Forgotten is the first duty of love: to speak the truth (Ephesians 4:15). Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is needed but points out the error which is blinding and harming the loved one. Christ said, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent (Revelation 3:19). Instead, the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth, and seeks unity at any price. Only disaster can result.
~ Dave Hunt
face as the old man tensed again while the plane bumped along. "George, it's all right. Just a little turbulence." He took a deep breath and finally eyed her squarely. "I'm on a couple of boards of companies headquartered in New York. Have to go up twice a year." Sidney glanced back at her documents, suddenly remembering something. She frowned. There was a mistake on the fourth page. That would need to be corrected when she got into
~ David Baldacci
And do not let squeamish Tories cry out about disloyalty; if the crown does wrong, the crown must be corrected by the nation, out of respect, of course, for the crown.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes
~ William Smith
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.
~ Woody Allen
My job is about being right. Always. If I'm ever wrong, I must make use of all my means and resources to bend and align reality according to my mistake so that it ceases to be a mistake.
~ Unknown
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
~ Herodotus
When disability or madness is present, it is conceived of as a deficit, something in need of correction, medically/psychiatrically or by the correction industry, but not as a nuanced identity from which to understand how to live differently, including reevaluating responses to harm and difference.
~ Unknown
You know you are with true friends when they lift, encourage, correct, and then spur you on.
~ Lisa Bevere
Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their hands about 'revisionist' historians; on some level, the correction and amplification of various parts of the past is not 'revisionism' as it is simply the process of any historical writing.
~ Michelle Dean
What is it, I wonder, that they hope to Correct? I am what I am, irredeemably, irretrievably, implacably — as are most of my fellow desperadoes here in Correctional Facility. We are monsters.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.
~ Steven Novella
Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.
~ William Penn
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
~ Sam Houston
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.
~ Unknown
7.?YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE TO BLAME WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. You are the one who needs to be guided, taught, and corrected. That's because everything is your fault—even, or perhaps especially,
~ Valorie Burton
YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE TO BLAME WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. You are the one who needs to be guided, taught, and corrected. That's because everything is your fault—even, or perhaps especially, when it's not. Guilt trippers rarely own up to their part in problems. Any guilt they feel they project on to you or some other unfortunate soul.
~ Valorie Burton
Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.
~ Unknown