Quotes About Corrections

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too.

Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too. Wikipedia works so well because it removes an error in a single click, making it easier to eliminate a falsehood than to post a falsehood in the first place.

He adored me in spite of my blunders. He never made me feel like the rules were more important than our relationship. He often corrected me, but he refused to punish me.

Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?" "I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I've known." I blinked at him. "Really?" "No, Kitty. That was a joke.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.

After all of the reforms that he implemented, Ohio's prison system showed the lowest rates of recidivism in the nation.

My wife saw a mug somewhere that says, 'I'm silently correcting your grammar.' I think that is perfect thing for me.

Wikipedia features a popular article called "Errors in the Encyclopaedia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia." This article is, of course, always in flux. All Wikipedia is. At any moment the reader is catching a version of truth on the wing.

The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

You could easily do away with a lot of jails. They're shit. They breed, they don't deter, crime.

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Alabama has no choice but to reinvent our corrections system by replacing outdated and unsafe facilities that pose a great risk to public safety - and inhibit development of programs for inmate rehabilitation.

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

Show me an incumbent bigco failing to adapt to change, I'll show you top execs paid huge cash compensation for quarterly and annual goals." "Every billionaire suffers from the same problem. Nobody around them ever says, 'Hey, that stupid idea you just had is really stupid.'" "'Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.'—Peter Lynch

It now costs about thirteen million dollars per prisoner.

But I still have questions, and the way to get answers is to bear her corrections.

Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail and rejoin our communities, which is why what happens inside matters to us all.

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.