Quotes About Improvement

In my column series 'The Main Thing ' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

The following ten throws went a variety of places. I never hit the target, but I was getting closer. Isabella was laughing so hard she wrote "Please stop can't breathe" in the dirt with her finger.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

Jeff [the werewolf] cocked his head and stared at me like I had just turned into a were-rabbit. Admittedly, this was a tremendous improvement over wanting to tear me limb from limb. "Well, shave my ass and call me a poodle. How the hell did you manage that?

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion...)

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

Lean Six Sigma is a combination of both the Lean and Six Sigma philosophies. This creates a powerful improvement concept that applies data-driven tools to solve problems, transform processes, and reduce costs.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Optimization implies that we already know how to do something but that we now need to improve it. Innovation implies that we don't know how to do something, and searching for that knowledge is paramount.

The moment learning occurs, mankind progresses

Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Whatever good things we build end up building us

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know; and the more you know, the smarter you grow.

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

Everyday is a second chance to redeem yourself.

Life is a quest to find out how much better you can be and higher you can go.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

would savor this mortal life while I had it, learn and experience all I could. And when it ended, I would take what I had learned and be a more excellent god and make the world better.