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The difficult passage practiced for hours, will not be played correctly once the student plays it for the teacher the more a student practices, the less likely he will play correctly during the lesson.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about teaching, teachers

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about past, fasting, present, society, world

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should...

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about chance, democracy, past, use

Flaws of style and sequence would fairly leap off the...

Flaws of style and sequence would fairly leap off the page and the means to correct them would, too.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about style

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to...

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Quote by John Abizaid

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Quote by John Bradshaw about lie, essential, reality, pain, thinking, truth, life

I have been able to make yearly predictions which turned...

I have been able to make yearly predictions which turned out to be 95 percent correct.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, sun, indifference, history

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Quote by Jane Austen about opinion

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do...

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Quote by Herodotus about defects, rightness, things, time

If you know you are correct, then you aren't.

If you know you are correct, then you aren't.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education

The correct depth of compression in adult CPR is a bit...

The correct depth of compression in adult CPR is a bit less than the depth you just reached when you broke those ribs.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

Your expensive, new safety shooting glasses will never...

Your expensive, new safety shooting glasses will never have the right correction for CAS work.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, safety, rightness, work

The screwdriver of the correct size will be missing when...

The screwdriver of the correct size will be missing when it is needed to tighten a woodwind key.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Band members playing correctly will always follow the...

Band members playing correctly will always follow the players who are playing incorrectly.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Being Politically Correct means always having to say...

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

Quote by Charles Osgood about politics, being

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life...

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about birh, mistake, life

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about circumstances

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Quote by Walter Pater about objects, literary critic, beauty, power, being

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