You have to be humble when somebody is, not blaming you, but having to say something isn’t right or correct.
The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean.
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.
I’m very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they’re not embarrassed, they’re gleeful.
I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I’m not the type of guy who’s just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who’s wide open. I can make the right pass.
When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some ISAF coalition members, and much of the American public had lost confidence in both the trajectory of the war and our ability to correct it.
As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don’t match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can’t praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
I think we go overboard with a lot of those politically correct no-no’s.
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.
I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional – what a cranky guy would call correct – grammar.
So I think it’s – what was important to me is that I found that I can’t change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don’t think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
People should stop judging other people on the basis of their weight or how they look because I don’t think being a certain body type is as bad as being evil or cunning. We have bigger issues in life to look after and correct.
I refuse to totally grow up. I’ve always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
I remember one day, Ekta Kapoor came to the set and scolded me that you don’t know how to act, why did we cast you’? She asked me to stay on the set till I learnt the technique of correct dialogue delivery. At that time I felt very humiliated.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.
It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books that I wrote at the start of my career. I paid to have these two books, ‘Bold Conquest’ and ‘Wild Hearts,’ scanned. When I got them back as documents, I had to clean them up and correct all the typos, etc.
People often call ‘If I Stay’ my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It’s not my first book. It’s just the first one anybody paid attention to.
Trying to speak correct English is not easy.
I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think… you must care for others. That’s the correct religion, I think.
Respectfully, ‘Awkward Black Girl’ was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
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.
It’s very important to know your body type before trying a particular exercise. It’s also important to know why you are doing a certain kind of exercise. The technique should be correct.
In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.
It’s more important to get the story correct than to get it first.
I only take pleasure in making a break if I’ve made the correct decision.
Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.
I’ll always be Chinese first. It probably isn’t politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I’ll always have this face.
One of the things that interested me about Five was the trauma that was contributed via the apocalypse. I wanted to make sure that I got his PTSD correct.
In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don’t even agree with each other.
The move towards a unified agricultural market helps farmers get correct remuneration for their produce.
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
I’m learning from my past mistakes and trying to correct them as I move forward. Experience at the international level has probably taught me what it takes to probably go out there and get a 100 or to build an innings or to win a game.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
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.
We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.
Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn’t true.
People ask what are my intentions with my films – my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
I’d say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.
As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct on both sides.
My premise is that the popular aphorism that ‘all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different’ simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.
Unfortunately, the general interest in art among the Japanese is very low compared to that of Western countries. I would love to be able to correct that by bringing many more pieces of interesting artwork to Japan.
I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don’t correct somebody’s grammar. That’s just not okay. I’m from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ‘ain’t,’ or something like that.
