Quotes About Improvement

You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

That is why our arts and sciences cannot improve the world, despite what liberal philanthropists say. Our vast new scientific skills are first used by the damnably greedy selfish impatient parts of our nature and nation, the careful kindly social part always comes second.

Well, she said, I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away.

Failure is success in progress

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

process. It's as beneficial, on its own level, as the hybridization of different strains of maize or chickens.

Public health and social reform are the indispensable preconditions of any kind of general enlightenment

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Quando non sai cos'è, allora è jazz.

That's precisely what I'm saying: in order to become better people, we must practise," Isabel said.