A Quote by Nellie L. McClung

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

Nellie L. McClung

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Correct Equipped Erasers Mistakes Pencils Why

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Nellie L. McClung
Canadian - Politician
October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

Tommy Lasorda

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

Isaac Asimov

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

Mahesh Bhatt

It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Vladimir Nabokov

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

Michael Chabon

If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

Edward Teller

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

Ingvar Kamprad

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

Isaac Barrow

Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them.

Kumar Sangakkara

I talked to people in the pencil industry and I talked to people as I was sharpening their pencils about the frustrations they have with pencils, so I really did do my research and I do know more about pencils than most people.

David Rees

I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

David Rees

We follow the rules and some guys make some mistakes and we gotta correct those mistakes. We follow the rules and we do it the right way at Florida and we have to do a better job of correcting some of the people making mistakes.