Quotes About Improvement

now with new paint, added wings, well-kept lawn and

Quien desea de corazón ser mejor, tiene medio camino hecho

He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh

Afrontar la crítica es la mejor prueba para el trabajo porque permite descubrir virtudes y defectos insospechados, además de que sirve de guía para mejorar en la siguiente ocasión.

The Old-Fashioned Girl is not intended as a perfect model, but as a possible improvement upon [Page] the Girl of the Period, who seems sorrowfully ignorant or ashamed of the good old fashions which make woman truly beautiful and honored, and, through her, render home what it should be,-a happy place, where parents and children, brothers and sisters, learn to love and know and help one another.

One of the greatest of liberals, Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, once remarked: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned—this is the sum of good government.

Podemos mejorar. Pero para eso tenemos que creer en las posibilidades de la democracia, y defenderla, y trabajar para perfeccionarla. Ten confianza.

Your energy can be devoted far more productively to collaborating with your child on solutions to the problems that are causing challenging episodes than in sticking with strategies that may actually have made things worse and haven't led to durable improvement.

A common belief about behaviorally challenging kids is that they have learned that their challenging behavior is an effective means of getting their way and coercing adults into giving in, and that their parents are passive, permissive, inconsistent disciplinarians. If this view hasn't led to improvements in your child's behavior, you may want to try on some different lenses: your child is lacking skills rather than motivation.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

I thought progress was a good thing." "Well, maybe not if it just keeps piling up more junk and keeps you from fixing stuff from the past.

As I have not much time left in life, I am determined not to be a coward. I will live as earnestly as I can and feel my feelings deeply, I will rigorously reflect upon my thoughts and emotions, and try to improve myself as much as I can. I will continue to write and to study, so that when the time of my death comes, I will die beautifully, as a man in the midst of a supreme and noble effort.

What's the storm called, anyway?" "Progress." She grinned.

Make mistakes -- just don't keep making the same goddamn ones.

The process of revision should be constant and endless

At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast.

some fortunate patients could enter the OO (or Optimal Outcome) group whose members no longer showed any of the symptoms of autistic disorder

negative feedback is good medicine for a company even when it is unfounded.

Despite our perennial bad behavior, our moral progress seems to me unmistakable.

It would seem that very few good things in life come from our accepting the present moment as it is. To become educated, we must be motivated to learn. To master a sport requires that we continually improve our performance and overcome our resistance to physical exertion. To

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.