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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. -- Eugene Jarecki
Correction badly undertaken creates distance. -- Kevin Thoman
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Use the prise de fer!" Shelby called. "Lilith sucks at the prise de fer. Correction: Lilith sucks at everything, but especially the prise de fer. -- Lauren Kate
I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point? -- Claire Messud
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers. -- Leah Price
He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit. -- Julia Quinn
Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man. Correction. Earl.So what, indeed. -- Nicole Castro
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. -- Hosea Ballou
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. -- John Wooden
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect. -- John Nelson Darby
80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage. -- Ellen Hollman
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler
Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction. -- Benny Hinn
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works. -- Randall Terry
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. -- Charles Francis Richter
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. -- Wole Soyinka
Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system. -- Ron Paul
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. -- Agnes de Mille
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. -- Saint Ambrose
Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs. -- Henry B. Eyring
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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' -- A. R. Ammons
You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else. -- Ben Carson
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. -- Harriet Martineau
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. -- Ernst Mach
With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television. -- Stephen Lang
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. -- Kevyn Aucoin
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. -- Roland Barthes
Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction. -- James A. Owen
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.... -- Hosea Ballou
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault. -- Norm MacDonald
Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny. -- Bryant H. McGill
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride. -- John Paul Jackson
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. -- Henry David Thoreau
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised. -- Bill Crawford
The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction. -- Muhammad Ali
The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil. -- Larry Osborne
In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down. -- Alan Abelson
A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence. -- Rogers Hornsby
Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that. -- Myles Munroe
All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority. -- Margaret Benson
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance. -- Randy Alcorn
In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction. -- Jennifer Doudna
If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction. -- Napoleon Hill
I was so focused on my mistake that I made another mistake during the correction of the initial mistake. -- Jarod Kintz
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. -- Oliver Goldsmith
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction. -- Elisabeth Elliot
The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality. -- Hua-Ching Ni
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks. -- Fatima bint Muhammad
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. -- Sam Harris
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction. -- Ice Cube
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. -- Stephen Jay Gould
What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable. -- Ted Martinez
Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. -- Asa Don Brown
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires. -- Christilot Hanson-Boylen
The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil. -- Laozi
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. -- Karl Barth
Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection. -- Amy Dickinson
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail. -- Philip Sidney
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. -- Sigmund Freud
I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse. -- Tyler Perry
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle. -- Steven Pressfield
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. -- Walter Savage Landor
Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners. -- John Dewey
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total. -- Jean Tinguely
God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments. -- Isaac of Nineveh
If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul. -- Maximus the Confessor
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done. -- Zebulon Pike
False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction. -- Max Anders
The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it. -- Thomas Dubay
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred. -- J. I. Packer
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell. -- Ingeborg Bachmann
Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man. -- William James
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work. -- Jerry Brown
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. -- Richard Whately
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible. -- Walter J. Phillips
Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system. -- Ron Paul
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero). -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016. -- Rick Perry
The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction. -- Mark Twain
To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke. -- Paul Washer
I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction. -- Nikki Giovanni
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. -- Paul the Apostle
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. -- Thomas Jefferson
While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is still sheltered from criticism in every corner of our culture." -- Sam Harris
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction. -- George Herbert
The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Success depends on our choice of deployment (in terms of both quantity and/ or Quality) of the 86400 spells (Hindi- Pal) available each day for reflection, correction, and improvement,towards the journey for perfection. -- Priyavrat Thareja
The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory. -- George Steiner
If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad. -- C. S. Lewis
An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12. -- Miranda July
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. -- William Petty
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
People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future. -- Jim Cymbala
I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on. -- John Dykstra
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies. -- John Dryden
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction. -- John Calvin

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