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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words. -- Paul Kantner
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world. -- Ramana Maharshi
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. -- Milton Friedman
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. -- Quintilian
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 misperceptions. -- Gerald Jampolsky
We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. -- M. Russell Ballard
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous. -- John Hodgman
In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain. -- Gary Hamel
People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani. -- Matt LeBlanc
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me. -- Francine Rivers
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. -- Margaret Mahy
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. -- Jack Nicklaus
Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can. -- Siobhan Fahey
I don't want to treat my little girl like she's made out of glass or wrap her in bubble wrap or anything! And I also don't want to be constantly correcting her or warning her. Or my least favorite, reprimanding her. -- Constance Marie
When it comes to losing weight, balancing your hormones is absolutely crucial. Not only will it help you lose weight by correcting a sluggish metabolism, but you'll look more rested and vibrant, your mood will improve, and you'll get your libido back! -- Suzanne Somers
But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green. -- Michael Weatherly
Teach by teaching, not by correcting -- Maria Montessori
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process. -- Jonas Salk
The market is in the process of correcting itself. -- George W. Bush
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting. -- Marianne Williamson
The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. -- Marianne Williamson
Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them -- Karen Marie Moning
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character. -- John Wooden
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat. -- Woodrow Wilson
A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance. -- Gregory Bateson
If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere. -- Timothy Keller
Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting. -- Orrin Woodward
I believe correcting is the positive approach. I believe in the positive approach. Always have. -- John Wooden
We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community. -- James R. Clapper
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others. -- Edward Weston
Do not worry about correcting your mistakes , time will bury them ; Worry about not repeating them. -- Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other). -- Ibn Taymiyyah
The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them. -- James Redfield
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution. -- Jonas Salk
If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting. -- Steven Novella
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. -- Brian Greene
I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. -- Jonas Salk
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. -- Parker J. Palmer
It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes. -- Karl Popper
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. -- Gene Perret
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. -- Lawrence Wright
People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies. -- Tom Rath
If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling. -- Stephen Covey
So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process. -- Kitty Ferguson
Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong. -- Allan Sandage
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. -- Aaron T. Beck
Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice. -- Suzy Kassem
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
A bit of research can save you hours, days of time correcting mistakes that you never had to make in the first place. -- John Patrick Hickey
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
Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell. -- Ally Carter
The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes. -- Nadeem Aslam
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 misperceptions. -- Gerald Jampolsky
You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists. -- Demetri Martin
There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others. -- Russell L. Ackoff
The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me. -- Ilona Andrews
Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching. -- Steve Spurrier
And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares... -- Robert Montgomery
A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him. -- Matthew Henry
Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible. -- 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 time... Dante does not efface Homer. -- Victor Hugo
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors. -- Carl Sagan
I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience. -- Charlotte Bronte
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
Feminism is not simply the idea that women can benefit from rediscovering themselves but also that our whole culture can benefit from correcting its psychic/sexual imbalance through each person becoming whole again. -- Anne Rush
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others. -- Walter Scott
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance. -- Seth Shostak
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative. -- T. S. Eliot

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