Quotes About Improvement

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Time will perfect matter.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

We both have a lot of things to work on.

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

it is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose.

A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

But I have to believe that Jesus prefers honesty to anything else. I was saying, Here's who I am, and that is where most improvement has to begin.

What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I am well, I know not to mess with mess right away; I try to let silence and time work their magic. [p. 100]

However, in the meantime, we are going to concentrate on writing itself, on how to become a better writer, because, for one thing, becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

The first draft is the down draft - you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft - you fix it up.

know there's solace in making do with what you've got, making things a little bit better. What might have been thrown out went from tattered scraps to something majestic and goofy and honest that holds together, that keeps people's eyes off me and my family, yet lets in the light and sun, like a poem or a song.

So as Samuel Beckett admonished us to fail again, and fail better, we try to pray again, and pray better, for slightly longer and with slightly more honesty, breathing more, deeper, and with more attention.

That's our damnation," he whispered. "Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.