Quotes About Improvement

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.

If readers tell you that stretches of dialogue or narrative were too long, that they couldn't tell who was talking, that's something that can be fixed.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in life, whatever it is you do.

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

Every successful business professional I know is constantly learning, reading, growing in their field.

Every off-season you look at what you can improve on. So you come in for the new season fresh and ready to go again.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

I have never met Saroj Ji when she's not instructing someone, she's always ready to make you understand, she's always ready to help you improve.

I had great relationships with all the four coaches I played under at Real Madrid. They all helped me improve, but if I had to pick the best, I would pick Ancelotti.

If you go to Real Madrid, there's no time to improve as a manager. You don't have a chance to be a better manager, you already have to be the best.

Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.

I always messed around a little bit growing up, just shooting with my left hand, but now I'm actually getting real work in with my left hand. I think it's going to be a big help.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

A lot of people might say, 'He must be seeing this person because he has problems,' but actually, the truth is it's a strength to realise you're doing things wrong... and it's a strength to get help.

I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.

For us, it's always important to improve and keep things realistic.

The day I stop learning and I don't try to make myself better on the guitar, that's the day I hang it up and say, 'Goodbye.'

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.