Correcting Quotes

121 quotes by 110 authors

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell
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… — Roger Babson
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character. — John Wooden
If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and… — Confucius
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all… — Victor Hugo
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. — Cyril Ponnamperuma
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat. — Woodrow Wilson
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every… — G. M. Trevelyan
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped… — Ernest Hemingway
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students. — Mortimer Adler
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… — Wendell Berry
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that… — Edward Said
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for… — Grace Lee Boggs
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving… — Namkhai Norbu
We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the miracle, while an… — Marianne Williamson
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 who… — Donald Rumsfeld
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our… — Gerald Jampolsky
Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand, correcting him without… — Brian Kilcommons
The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available… — William Wilson

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