Quotes About Improvement

I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.

It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

The recurring theme for me internally is, 'I was content with what I was doing until something way better just showed up.'

Both mainstream liberalism and conservatism are essentially materialist ideologies, and we should not be surprised that both shape a society dedicated to the multiplication of wants and the intensification of desire, not the improvement of character.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

No hay un proceso de regeneración para mejorar lo que se ha descompuesto, sino un movimiento de restauración del viejo régimen político autoritario.

Where performance is measured, performance improves. Where performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates." What you pay attention to grows.

It's one thing to get feedback, it's quite another to act on it. When it comes to feedback, the real prize is won when you use it to get better results, strengthen relationships, and achieve better outcomes all around.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

software people are terrible at estimating, because humans are terrible at estimating. Let's not just try harder. Let's find a better way.

Keeping the design good as it changes is called refactoring.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

A regenerated individual, in obedience to the teachings of Jesus, bore responsibility for the improvement of society and especially the interests of those most vulnerable.

Don't just crit there siticising.

Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past.

The world is not getting better by itself. Making the world a better place demands more and better leaders.