Quotes About Improvement

People don't engage merely to remind one another of the status quo. Instead, they eagerly engage when they want something to improve. This microleadership is essential to the health of your organization.

Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, told me, "We knew that Google was going to get better every single day as we worked on it, and we knew that sooner or later, everyone was going to try it. So our feeling was that the later you tried it, the better it was for us because we'd make a better impression with better technology. So we were never in a big hurry to get you to use it today. Tomorrow would be better.

There's a gap in the market where your version of better can make a welcome change happen.

We're humans. Our work isn't us. As humans, we can choose to do the work, and we can choose to improve our work.

And most of all, it teaches people in the organization that it's okay not to be the best in the world.

The Dip is the difference between the easy "beginner" technique and the more useful "expert" approach in skiing or fashion design.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

I'm sponsoring you to have the best life you can, and you're sponsoring me. We are co-sponsors. We regard our time together as a collaborative effort to make life better for each of us.

Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

Each day life sends you chances to learn, grow and step into your best. Don't miss them.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.