Correcting Quotes

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Life Is, Process

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• 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

  Mistake, People, Success Of Others

  Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg (2008). “Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track”, p.176, Pearson Prentice Hall

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• When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

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• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspirational, Sports, Mistake

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1957). “How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life”

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• A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

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• Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

  John Bosco

  Imperfection, Catholic, Trying

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• When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Parenting, Light

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  Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Comedian, Likes, Remember

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Apr 24, 2012

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• Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable.

  T. B. Joshua

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Everyone Makes Mistakes

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• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

  Epictetus

  Love, True Friend, Lying

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• A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

  Edward Weston

  Faults, Lifetime, Bother

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

  John Green

  Communication, Errors, Talking

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• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Justice, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Mean, Light, Giving

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• From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Wisdom, Mistake

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• A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

  Marshall Cook

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

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• We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Mean, Giving

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, May 22, 1932.

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• A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Building, Committed, Scholar

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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 good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Book, Writing, Sweat

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• The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.

  James Redfield

  Children, Energy, Done

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Archer, Heart

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• If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Dance, Teacher

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors in spite of the pains we take not to. It's important to take ownership of the situation and to work to make it right.

  Mark Mason

  Pain, Mistake, Errors

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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