Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.
When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.
We have always a right to correct ancient errors and to establish what is more conformable to reason and convenience
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is something that all achievers have in common. They do not see a mistake is as their failure; rather it is simply a learning experience. Achievers view a mistake as an opportunity to do something over again and do it right the second time. A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success.
We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up.
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.
I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
The key is when we make mistakes, we want to be able to correct them and we also want to be able to learn from them so that we do not make the same mistake twice.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.
It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.
