It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting…

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person…

— Donald Rumsfeld

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We…

— Franz Liszt

“As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its…

— Carl Sagan

Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious…

— David Blankenhorn

Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is…

— Chris Argyris

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

— Robert Baden-Powell

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was…

— Margaret Mahy

I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique…

— Lester Horton

I was the girl who was correcting people on the spelling of Led Zeppelin.

— Sasha Spielberg

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is…

— John Hodgman

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting…

— Nicholas Negroponte

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

— Marianne Williamson

More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a)…

— David D. Burns

“We’re Garde,’ I say, correcting this billion-year-old godlike energy force, because what the hell, we’ve come this far. ‘We’re here for your help.”

— Pittacus Lore

You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.…

— Price Pritchett