Quotes About Improvement

Gary L. McIntosh

The biggest advances are not made by being a great teacher; they are made by being a great student.

I thought I was good after a few years. After ten years I realized I was still improving.

Everything said in the beginning must be said better than in the beginning.

It was a cruel and lawless place without him, and it seems to me that it's better with him, if anything. A bad horse needs a big whip, as the saying goes.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

That is probably the most painful part: when you are still tormented by the thought that one last effort of will might improve things.

But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we'll make a better job of it next time. Unless you're a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however "successful " is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.

If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.

Remember, work, well-done, does good to the man who did it. It makes him a better man

I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.

But why should you regret it more because I am a woman? Perhaps because we need that you should be better than we are. But suppose _we_ need that men should be better than we are, said Gwendolen with a little air of check! That is rather a difficulty, said Deronda, smiling. I suppose I should have said, we each of us think it would be better for the other to be good.

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.

Why an education bill about school testing? Once the testing frame applies not just to students but also to schools, then schools can, metaphorically, fail—and be punished for failing by having their allowance cut. Less funding in turn makes it harder for the schools to improve, which leads to a cycle of failure and ultimately elimination for many public schools.

We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

My aim is to do better than I did in Tokyo. I am glad I won the Olympic gold. I may have got the national record, but I am trying to breach the 90-metre barrier.

I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing 'Wonder Woman 2,' I thought, 'Well, these are so intense, making these movies. It's a lot to think about doing more.' But then I had an epiphany, and I thought, 'Oh, it's not more - it's better.'

I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.

What I most hope is that Kelsey and I can improve our communications and truly co-parent our two wonderful children.

The hard thing is making sure you work with wonderful people and that you get something out of it so that you can get better as an actor.

It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.

I need to grow as an actor. The wonderful thing is you never stop learning, and as my only interest is trying to perfect what I do, it's wonderful because I'll never succeed, so I'll have to keep working.

I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.