Quotes About Improvement

A woman in her forties was told by her doctor that she had to improve her health. The doctor suggested that she take up jogging and run two miles every day. He told her to call him in two weeks and tell him how she felt. Two weeks later, the woman checked in. "So how are you doing?" the doctor asked. "I feel pretty good," the woman said, "but I'm twenty-eight miles from home.

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

But his own interpretation is that the improvement in medical outcomes was brought about primarily by "a shift in clinicians' belief—by showing them that the rate of infection was not inevitable and could be controlled, in a way that appealed to their professional ethos as doctors and nurses.

Improving numbers by lowering standards. One way of improving metric scores is by lowering the criteria for scoring. Thus, for example, graduation rates of high schools and colleges can be increased by lowering the standards for passing. Or airlines improve their on-time performance by increasing the scheduled flying time of their flights.

there's no point in mourning mistakes when you can fix them

I mean that the book had better make life better better in at least six or seven definite ways immediately. Also, there had better be somewhere in it a method for handling fortune and chance so as to best provoke the most complicated, involved, and glorious refractions of what's possible.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

would have no chance to leave a better one.

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

Turn the light on so your aim is better, he said mildly. All you did was waste a full beer.

was always trying to improve the appearance of the package, because he knew that the goods inside were rotten.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

The whole thing seemed to run better while I was away.

The first draft is always shit.

Look, if you can't write why don't you learn to write criticism?

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

The easiest way to get rid of an unwanted conditioned response is to substitute a better response.

The purpose of risk management is to improve the future, not to explain the past.

Progress is the principle of the human race

A common rule we should always try to heed is to detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest-value stage possible.