Quotes About Improvement

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

researchers have run experiments25 showing that experts can be trained to be better at estimating probabilities by applying a battery of estimation tests, giving the experts a lot of quick, repetitive, clear feedback along with training in techniques for improving subjective probabilities.

the traditional form of Hoshin Kanri, there is a grouping of four perspectives. It is no surprise that the balanced scorecard perspectives are mirror images (see Exhibit 1.8). As with the balanced scorecard, Hoshin Kanri can be improved with the introduction of employee satisfaction and environment and community. EXHIBIT 1.8 Similarities between Hoshin Kanri and Balanced Scorecard Perspectives

1. Key result indicators (KRIs) tell you how you have done in a perspective or critical success factor. 2. Result indicators (RIs) tell you what you have done. 3. Performance indicators (PIs) tell you what to do. 4. KPIs tell you what to do to increase performance dramatically. EXHIBIT 1.1 Four Types of Performance Measures

Read constantly. Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write. Read until your brain creaks.

Relationships are supposed to mature. This maturing means growth and improvement, not the constant buzz of the initial rush.

Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. "And this is how to do it better next time.

When you write a page and delete the whole thing, there is a sense in which it is not deleted. The better writer who remained behind is still there.

We are badly diseased with regard to vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, and what we desperately need is for someone to write an elegant little volume of sane English usage that will make us all whole again.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

How a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

I can tell that you been practicing. All those other men were practice They were practice for me.

I got new shit, Im getting better still.

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

Im fire on the move, a tire looking smooth. Im not perfect but I got a desire to improve.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Predictions about complex systems, in other words, are highly subject to the law of diminishing returns: The first pieces of information help a lot, but very quickly you exhaust whatever potential for improvement exists.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

How do you master all the varied techniques? By writing stories. Which is to say, by being willing to be wrong. Then, having been wrong, you check back through your stuff for process errors . . . places where you skipped over steps, or went off the path, or started with the road map upside down. Do that enough times, on enough stories, and eventually you'll learn.

Each story teaches him new tricks . . . brings him new tools, new techniques. Insight continually grows in him, and so does understanding. So, he improves as he goes along . . . seldom falls into the same trap twice.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Your life only gets better when you get better.