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Letter "C" » correcting
«Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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«Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.»
«Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.»
Author: Jonas Salk
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Microbiologist)
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About:
Life,
Nature,
Survival,
Wisdom
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«If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.»
«It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.»
«There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
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Astronomer,
Scientist,
Writer)
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About:
Science
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«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.»
«Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government»
«Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.»