Quotes About Improvement

This operational excellence is based in part on tools and quality improvement methods

Source: Peter R. Scholtes, The Leader's Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 1998.

We strive to decide our own fate. We act with self-reliance, trusting in our own abilities. We accept responsibility for our conduct and for maintaining and improving the skills that enable us to produce added value.

More important than the actual improvements that individuals contribute, the true value of continuous improvement is in creating an atmosphere of continuous learning and an environment that not only accepts, but actually embraces change. Such an environment can only be created where there is respect for people—hence

Rather, companies improve their quality by defining what the idea means in terms of specific operational measures, then routinely and frequently assessing those aspects of performance, sharing the outcomes with everyone (often in graphical form), and holding people accountable for improving the measures that are under their control. When

In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Is that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is it charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don't keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, "Hey! Do you remember this?" Splat!

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve… If something is buried in the past, leave it buried.

Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.

When people ask me how I write, I always answer, "Out loud." It's the single most important piece of advice I give young writers. I insist, unequivocally, the greatest works that have every been written were – every one of them – written out loud. Learn that trick, teach yourself to listen to what you're writing, and your writing will improve immeasurably.

We hire coaches for our mindsets, attend conferences to improve our skill set, work with specialists for every need in our business and wonder why we feel like we're all over the place.

That was the nice thing about housework. No matter how dirty something got, you could fix it.

A good director, I was learning, could take criticism.

You guys have to get involved in the play with me," she insisted. "This isn't elementary school anymore! The production value will be way better, and so will the acting." I

Learn all about your industry and find out if people are making more money doing what you do somewhere else. If so, do all the things listed in number 5 below and get yourself a job at another company that pays better.

You have to be willing to change something if you want to change your financial situation.

Geld zu haben ist, wie alles andere auch, ein Werkzeug. Sehen Sie es als solches. Und betrachten Sie dabei nicht nur sich selbst. Überlegen Sie vielmehr, wie Sie zum Teil jener Dynamik werden können, in der Geld in allen Bereichen einer Verbesserung dient. Dann ist es nicht nur ein Segen Geld zu haben, dann bringt es auch eine Verantwortung mit sich.

you receive the great gift of being enlightened to some of your own not-so-special traits so you can grow and learn from them

I'm assuming if you're reading this that there are some areas of your life that aren't looking so good either.

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer's block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen.

You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.

You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.

What is only crudely established during character creation is fleshed out in play.

His kisses, not so good." She patted me consolingly on the shoulder. "He is young. Room for improvement!