Quotes About Improvement

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.