A Quote by Pope John XXIII

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. — © Pope John XXIII
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
I think there is this whole part of America that people overlook. I think they know it's there, but they tend to overlook it, become ignorant to it, and refuse to see it for what it is.
Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.
I have a great support system and I know how to prioritize everything. I strive to keep God in every aspect of my life so that's important, because some days, it requires you to have a great deal of strength. Then, my family is second and it's in that specific order. I look around and I see how everything falls into place once you know which comes first.
I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.
You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look.
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.
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