Quotes About Improvement

As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.

Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.

We all wish that we could be more productive.

Every summer I kept figuring out what I needed to work on to be productive the next season.

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.

Improving SME productivity translates into more and better paying jobs, distributed across less fortunate sections of the economy.

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.

Now, being a model and an actor, I'm trying to learn more as my profession demands it.

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

I'm always excited anytime I get a chance to be a better player and work with different people.

There are always different areas in the game you want to develop. For me it's my all-round game in different conditions in different places in the world.

Working with coach Sweeney has really been beneficial to my career. I've never watched so much film in my life, the constant communication between he and I. He'll send me clips every day, just different things to look at, ask what I think about it and we'll communicate and have different dialogues about it.

I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.

My game is what it is. I just have to improve on different things. Just show it out there on the court.

Everyone looks at MLS in a different way, of course. Because of the players coming in, it's a better league than before, of course. Everyone can see that there is potential to improve.

I'll lie awake and think about scenes I could have done better, that I could have filmed in a different way.

I wouldn't say I have done the best in scoring goals, but I have developed my game in a different way.

Guys that have the best shot in the world still shoot pucks, and that's for a reason. You keep growing your game and finding different ways to produce.

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'