Corrective quotes:

Send

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective. -- Gretchen Rubin
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites. -- Pankaj Mishra
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt. -- Edward Bach
Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary. -- Ed Royce
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. -- Thurgood Marshall
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. -- Andrew Jackson
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. -- Harold Bloom
The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again. -- Zoe Lofgren
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction). -- Edmund White
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye. -- Lee Smith
Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes. -- W. Rolfe Kerr
The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education. -- Thomas Jefferson
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. -- Richard E. Pattis
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. -- Henri Bergson
Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration. -- Roscoe Pound
Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard. -- Alger Hiss
We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature. -- Nina Easton
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. -- Jane Austen
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... -- Stanton Peele
American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging. -- Wallace Stegner
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! -- Emile M. Cioran
Wisdom comes from life experience; life experience is the result of repeatedly taking corrective action while courageously learning from mistakes. -- Ken Poirot
I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them. -- Richard Simmons
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. -- James A. Garfield
To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in -- Phoebe Philo
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science. -- Frances Wright
If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations. -- Oscar W. Firkins
Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision. -- Jacob Liberman

Send