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Quotes About Improvement

I'll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.
~ Lenny Breau
Never stop learning. Never stop growing.
~ Paula Walker Baker
Essentially, exercise improves a whole host of abilities prized in the classroom and at work.
~ John Medina
The researchers consistently found that all kinds of mental abilities began to come back online—after as little as four months of aerobic exercise. A different study looked at school-age children. Children jogged for 30 minutes two or three times a week. After 12 weeks, their cognitive performance had improved significantly compared with prejogging levels. When the exercise program was withdrawn, the scores plummeted back to their preexperiment levels.
~ John Medina
One study hints that it could, though more work needs to be done. Kids with normal hearing took an American Sign Language class for nine months, in the first grade, then were administered a series of cognitive tests. Their attentional focus, spatial abilities, memory, and visual discrimination scores improved dramatically—by as much as 50 percent—compared with controls who had no formal instruction.
~ John Medina
Yes, I do agree we need health care reform however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
~ John Mica
Q: Does it get easier? A: No, you just get better at it.
~ John Passaro
Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
~ John Phillips
The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.
~ John Preston
To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.
~ John Quincy Adams
It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
~ John Quincy Adams
Write about something you know. Try to leave your readers better off than they were before.
~ John R. Erickson
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships. The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.
~ John Ralston Saul
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
~ John Ruskin
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
~ John Ruskin
If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
~ John Scalzi
Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.
~ John Searles
They's movement now. People moving. We know why, an' we know how. Movin' 'cause they got to. That's why folks always move. Movin' 'cause they want somepin better'n what they got. An' that's the on'y way they'll ever git it.
~ John Steinbeck
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
~ John Steinbeck
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
~ John Stuart Mill
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
~ John Stuart Mill
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement.
~ John Stuart Mill
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
~ John Stuart Mill
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence
~ John Stuart Mill