Quotes About Corrective Actions

#1. To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#2. Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.

Dan Futterman

#3. Taking a deep breath, he made a second attempt. "It's so hard to let Claire go. Romantics are forever people.

Thomas Allen

#4. It's as if the whole world was fire and crystal and aquiver
with some sort of cotton wrappers thrown over it."
"Dust sheets," said Marjorie. "I know.

H.G.Wells

#5. Thinking deeply about your choices and actions from the stance of your future self can serve as both a motivational and a corrective force.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. Cancer is a tremendous opportunity to have your face pressed right up against the glass of your mortality. But what patients see through the glass is not a world outside cancer, but a world taken over by it - cancer reflected endlessly around them like a hall of mirrors.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#7. A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

Mark Twain

#8. Failure is a detour

NightBits

#9. Oh, torture. Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

Margaret Atwood

#10. I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

James Vincent McMorrow

#11. Maybe this will be the summer when there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#12. I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me.

Ralph McGehee