Quotes About Correcting Mistakes

#1. A bit of research can save you hours, days of time correcting mistakes that you never had to make in the first place.

John Patrick Hickey

#2. Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

Steve Spurrier

#3. There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. My wife says 90% of sex occurs between the ears. But I need a girl who can blow more just my mind.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. How does it work? I have no idea. It may have something to do with trusting the process of your life totally.

Art Hochberg

#6. The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Nadeem Aslam

#7. 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

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

Donald Rumsfeld

#9. You have to look at your life purpose, what you love to do and your ability to learn from your mistakes, while correcting your actions.

Daniel Marques

#10. Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Diane Sawyer

#11. The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#12. If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

Confucius

#13. You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.

Dante Alighieri

#14. I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.

Mark Hodder

#15. Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

Kent Conrad

#16. It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

Karl Popper

#17. High school. You know, people say, 'I'll never do so-and-so again' - then they do it. So what? Sometimes somebody has crack, and you're looking to stay awake.

Jon Stewart

#18. Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).

Frederic Chopin