Definition of Correcting

Correcting Quotations

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton Friedman

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack Nicklaus

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Donald Rumsfeld

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
Siobhan Fahey

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.
Margaret Mahy

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.
Paul Kantner