Corrections Quotes

• The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Animal, Opportunity, Atmosphere

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• Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

  Jonathan Franzen

  Problem, Ifs, Knows

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.324, Macmillan

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• What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Children, Attractive, About Yourself

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ordinary, Sad Truth, Extraordinary

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.197, Macmillan

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• Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.

  Deborah Moggach

  Morning, Night, Drunk

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• The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride.

  John Paul Jackson

  Inspirational, Anger, Pride

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• In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

  David Landes

  Positive, Success, Attitude

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• 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

  Wise, Fighting, Pride

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Training, World

  "God in the Dock".

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• For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

  William Penn

  Disappointment, Heaven, Trials

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Life, Education, Children

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Jobs, Goal, Excuse

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.21, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I make corrections only after I have proved to the individual that I highly value him. If they know we care for them, our correction won’t be seen as judgmental. I also try to never make it personal.

  John Wooden

  Trying, Care, Approval

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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 you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Criticism, Looks

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Opposites, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

  Diane Ackerman

  Moving, Lines, Crystals

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• If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

  Thomas Szasz

  Order, Law, Punishment

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2002). “The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience”, p.36, Syracuse University Press

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• It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do is help people to turn away from sin. To ignore another person's wrongful actions is a sign of apathy or indifference, while fraternal correction is motivated by love for that person's well-being, as can be seen by the fact that our Lord Jesus himself urged such correction. Indeed, the call to repentance is at the heart of the Gospel, as Jesus proclaimed, "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Good News" (Mark 1:15).

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Jobs, Mistake

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• The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

  Charles Graner

  Christian, Men, Officers

  "Punishment and Amusement" by Scott Higham and Joe Stephens, www.washingtonpost.com. May 22, 2004.

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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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• My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Encouragement, Thinking

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smell, Differences

  Amy Hempel (2010). “The Dog of the Marriage: Stories”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Kids, Construction Workers, Wealth

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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