Quotes About Improvement

Frank Bettger

Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.

You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life.

La burocrazia distrugge l'iniziativa. Poche sono le cose che i burocrati odiano più delle innovazioni, specialmente quelle innovazioni che producano risultati migliori delle vecchie abitudini. I miglioramenti fanno sempre sembrare inetti quelli che sono in cima al mucchio. A chi piace sentirsi inetto?

School, Frankie, school. The books, the books, the books. Get out of Limerick before your legs rot and your mind collapses entirely.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

But I wish we could throw off some excess weight." Joe eyed Chet slyly.

Les avocats sont bien loin de vouloir introduire dans le système judiciaire quelque amélioration que ce soit, alors que tout accusé, même le plus simple d'esprit – et c'est très caractéristique – commence toujours, dès son premier contact avec la justice, par méditer des projets de réforme, gaspillant ainsi un temps et des forces qu'il pourrait employer beaucoup plus utilement.

Actually, he said, it's not my job to improve things here, as you put it, and if you said that to someone like the examining magistrate you'd be laughed at or punished. I certainly wouldn't have become involved in these matters of my own free will, and I would never have lost any sleep over the shortcomings of this judicial system. But because I was supposedly placed under arrest - I've been arrested, you see - I've been forced to take action in my own behalf.

I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.

I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.

I'm a massive Roger Federer fan, and sometimes I can see in his game the willful development of a tactic or technique that doesn't come as naturally to him, like fixating on improving the backhand. And I'm thinking, Hit the forehand! It's what you do!

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

I watch tape of players - Chris Paul, Deron Williams, all the top players who play my same position.

I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything about everything. I definitely have work to do. The thing is, I'm willing to admit that.

I can grow as a leader only if I'm willing to accept feedback.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.

Democrats stand ready and willing to work with President Trump to improve upon the ACA - but we will not sit by and watch him sabotage the health care of millions of Americans.

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

It'd be nice to learn enough from each mistake that we'd be guaranteed to never repeat that same mistake twice. But, how many times have you said, 'I'll never do that again,' only to find yourself right back at it a few days later. Learning from our mistakes requires humility and a willingness to look for new strategies to become better.