Quotes About Improvement

Make us better than we are. Make us good.

The author's economy, and happy life, among the Houyhnhnms. His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them. Their conversations. The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from the country. He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits. He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture. I

Il futuro si costruisce passo dopo passo, non ci sono dubbi. Ma è altrettanto certo che saremo migliori se sapremo vivere nel presente circondandoci di tutte quelle cose buone che ancora esistono, facendo buoni propositi, e avvicinandoci a tutte quelle persone impegnate alla scoperta di sé, che con ottimismo hanno imparato ad ascoltare. Solo in questo modo potremo addormentarci notte dopo notte un po' più sereni e svegliarci ogni mattina un po' più saggi.

No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.

The pettiest will be generous And the most craven will be brave: Nothing improves a reputation Like confinement to a grave.

an ameliorative mythology [that through] prayer or good deeds or some other activity, one can change the basic principles, the fundamental preconditions of life... This is like marrying someone in order to improve him or her—it is not a marriage.

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

Todos os dias sob todos os pontos de vista vou cada vez melhor.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back.

Being original doesn't require being first. It just means being different and better.

New Years resolution: be more awesome.

Darwin, with typical prescience, suspected that this might be the case: Man alone is capable of progressive improvement. That he is capable of incomparably greater and more rapid improvement than is any other animal, admits of no dispute; and this is mainly due to his power of speaking and handing down his acquired knowledge.

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

This method is: first, to create better fundamental conditions of social development by establishing a profound feeling for social responsibilities among the public; second, to combine this feeling for social responsibilities with a ruthless determination to prune away all excrescences which are incapable of being improved. Just

No improvement can be brought about until it is understood that economics play one a second- or third-rate role, while the primary factors are politics, morality, and blood. Only when this is understood will it be possible to understand the causes of the present evil, and thus to find the ways and means of curing them.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.

I think I've shown patches of being a good defender and then I've gotten lazy off the ball and you make a stupid play and you look like you can't guard anybody.