“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He's the only person I know who read all 42 volumes of the works of Goethe in German and he read them all twice,”
John Knapp
“Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.”
Thomas Carlyle
“We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.”
“We've got to go back and make sure we get those [mistakes] corrected. We've got to encourage our young players and our old players alike to stay positive and work together. I expect nothing less than that.”
Carroll McCray
“To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.”
George Bernard Shaw