Quotes About Improvement

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

There might never be another 'Crouching Tiger.' There might be something that's even better than 'Crouching Tiger.'

Some golf instructors get overly technical and teach the mechanics of the ideal swing. That approach didn't work for me. So, I found a pro that didn't insist that I learn Tiger's swing. He accepted my physical limitations and improved my game by focusing on the minimal golf skills that I have.

Trust yourself in tight situations, but you need to have a plan. You might fail once, twice, but you will get better at it.

I feel I can continue to grow as a player. I have a long time to continue to progress with my shooting, continue to keep my ball handling tight, continue to stay in shape. You know, all of it.

From the strength involved, the jumping, to body positioning and control, there are similarities. Playing basketball at a pretty good high school level, in a state where there were strong programs, definitely helped make me a better tight end.

You can never perfect nothing, really, so I need to tighten up my ballhandling, my shooting.

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Virtually everyone with ASD improves with time and age. Children learn to express themselves through language

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one's gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to "kindle afresh" his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit.

Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.

The Heath brothers stressed that, counterintuitively, big problems 'are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.' 'Shrink the change' became a kind of motto for me and my team, along with President Obama's version of the point: 'Better is good' (p. 517).

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

T]hough I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.