Quotes About Improvement

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi, za sest dana. Da se potrosilo malo vise vremena, svet se ne bi trebalo toliko popravljati i poboljsavati. Slicno se desava kad na brzinu sklepas kucu, pa u zurbi zaboravis WC, ili spremiste za metle, i to onda moras naknadno dograditi, bez obzira koliko te to kostalo novaca ili zivaca.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

God made the Sea of Galilee and its surroundings as they are. Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work?

If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there.

If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

if it works it's obsolete

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He wants to deal with what you can do right now. Because now is all you can change.

In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter.

We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.

But most whites in America in 1967, including many persons of goodwill, proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression for improvement. White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap—essentially it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it. Most of the abrasions between Negroes and white liberals arise from this fact.

Humanity is waiting for something other than blind imitation of the past. If we want truly to advance a step further, if we want to turn over a new leaf and really set a new man afoot, we must begin to turn mankind away from the long and desolate night of violence.