Quotes About Improvement

Why not go back to God's drawing board and design a better Sapiens?

You want to argue that they in fact improved the conditions of their subjects with new medicines, better economic conditions and greater security? You could fill another encyclopedia with their achievements.

The idea of progress is built on the notion that if we admit our ignorance and invest resources in research, things can improve. This idea was soon translated into economic terms.

Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better.

We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. Dramatic improvements in conditions, as humankind has experienced in recent decades, translate into greater expectations rather than greater contentment.

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Attitudosis cannot survive a strong, steady dose of uplifting literature or a regular donation of your time to a good cause. Make eye contact with someone who doesn't expect it and then give her your best smile. When you are willing to improve your attitude and you take action to do so, you'll enjoy life even more.

Individuals who keep growing in knowledge are the ones who succeed.

If you always do what you've always done, you're always going to get what you've always gotten.

A better world is always waiting for a better you.

Education is not a perfect process but it reduces the imperfection in our lives.

Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great.

Nothing gets easier but our abilities get better.

The world will not get better, only we get and grow better.

When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it's not going to be what you're looking at now.

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.