In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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.
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
I don't know if people consciously get in the way of their own success. In fairness, people have a lot of pride, and they fall back on what they know to be safe and correct. Anybody, including me, struggles with change.
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!
I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.
I still like complete sentences that are grammatically correct without spelling errors. I don't always achieve this, and it is irksome to read a message I have sent and discover errors. I know I often leave out words in e-mail, not by choice, but because of the way my brain works.
Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.
But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes, is not the British way of writing history, and never has been.
You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not really about if every sound is correct; it's more the energy - if it hits you in some way, it doesn't really matter to me if it's not perfect. I'm still very excited while hunting for songs.
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
I had to learn correct portion control. I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.
