Quotes About Improvement

The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

El mundo sería infinitamente mejor si los líderes pudieran entender y aplicar las dinámicas que se esconden tras las apariencias que mueven y moldean el mundo.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book. Sometimes I guess it's best just to forget there's an audience and just write like no one will ever read it at all.

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

Utopia' used to denote a coveted, dreamt-of distant goal to which progress should, could and would eventually bring the seekers after a world better serving human needs. In contemporary dreams, however, the image of 'progress' seems to have moved from the discourse of shared improvement to that of individual survival. Progress is no longer thought about in the context of an urge to rush ahead, but in connection with a desperate effort to stay in the race.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals.

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

He watched the villagers at their work and tried to get to know their ways: how they made their stores and divided them for consumption, how they bred their animals and made tools for the field, plows, harrows, rakes, shovels, as well as weapons, tubs, baskets and the like. He watched them making repairs and improving their houses with saws, hammers, and axes, or bringing wood to their homes by the easier method of using sleighs, or satisfying the other necessities of life in their few trades.

The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.

The extent of the market, therefore, must for a long time be in proportion to the riches and populousness of that country, and consequently their improvement must always be posterior to the improvement of that country.

This impossibility of making so complete and entire a separation of all the different branches of labour employed in agriculture, is perhaps the reason why the improvement of the productive powers of labour, in this art, does not always keep pace with their improvement in manufactures.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Wellstone (Minnesota Senator, Al Franken predecessor)

The motor of our ingenuity is the question 'Does it have to be like this?', from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.

Your religion is all about being miserable, and wretched. Ours had time for play, and joy. How is this an improvement?

What's more, the only available economic upside comes from making your product or service more desirable by improving its quality, and you can't do that by reducing the money you spend designing or programming