Quotes About Improvement

Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Well, we'll know better next time.

I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?

Time is money, be a better you.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

Think something isn't good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.