Quotes About Improvement

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

If your form dips as a back-row forward, it is best to address the areas you know you're going to be heavily involved in.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.

When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never there even when I'm directing a film. You need to have the feeling that you could have done this better.

I think we're going in the right direction.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

I know what difference it makes to a community if a dirt road becomes a bitumen road.

Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

I'm a little disappointed in my rebounding.

Being in the best league in the world you are expected to score goals. I am disappointed when that doesn't happen but that is not to say I'm not working on it and trying to improve every day.

If you come away with a 1-1 result, that's obviously a disappointing feeling. You start to look at what you could have done better.

I now have 10 years' more experience from when I broke into the game. I can deal with disappointments easier, and all of that helps to make me a better player. It's the same in any walk of life, in any job.

I have been working on my backhand since I was the age of five. And it's a disaster, my backhand, so I'm working on it.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

The only thing I wanted to change in the past was being a little bit more disciplined on the defensive end.

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

A lot of people are still suffering from water-borne diseases... We want to create something where we can make life better for everyone.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.