Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.
When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I correct them is when they refer to me as Spike Lee's sister.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
Lt. Kinderman: If certain British doctors never asked "What is this fungus?" we wouldn't today have penicillin, correct?
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
David Shayne: Your taste is exquisite. Helen Sinclair: [correcting] My taste is superb. My eyes are exquisite.
Sam Lowry: Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. Where would we be if we didn't follow the correct procedures?
Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?
Whenever a word ''nigga'' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ? and the correct answer is Not really.
