Correction Quotes

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

Someone, Give, Resentment

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Nothing, Friend, Silence

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

Financial, System, Necessary

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

Beauty, Fun, Yourself

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Power, Revolution, Reform

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler

Enough, Write, Anyone

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Women, Wonderful, Changes

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.
Benjamin Carson

Christmas, Political, Mean

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
Benny Hinn

Lord, Growing, Open

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

Good, Someone, Old

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou

Parents, Brevity

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

Love, Friend, Become

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
John Nelson Darby

Life, Respect, Valuable

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

Done, Attention, Errors

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

Music, Poetry, Words

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

Might, Distance, Measured

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

Time, Nothing, Doubt

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

Time, Men, Whole

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
Howard Staunton

Game, Necessary, Committed

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

Help, May, Cannot

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

End, Making, Film

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

Society, Religious, Duty

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
John Jewel

Life, God, Knowledge

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.
Ellen Hollman

Learning, Children, Vision

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