Quotes About Improvement

The fewer mistakes you make twice, the easier life is.

We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.

But he was well aware that the future could never be relied upon to be an improvement upon the present. The future did not exist. Only the present did.

pero más vale aprender tarde que no aprender nunca.

turned over a new leaf

Mother: What more can we be? Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

MOTHER: What more can we be! CHRIS: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's why he died.

LINDA: I know, dear, I know. But he likes to have a letter. Just to know that there's still a possibility for better things.

Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.

Para conducir al hombre a un estado mejor, no bastaría con ponerle en un mundo mejor, sino que seria preciso de toda necesidad transformarle totalmente, hacer de modo que no sea lo que es y que llegara a ser lo que no es.

Indeed, in the medical model, the person with disability is placed under an obligation to want to get well, his or her multiple social roles of parent, worker, spouse, and so on being suspended temporarily in exchange for a sign of strenuous effort toward improvement.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.

We are all plagued by failures - by missed subtleties, overlooked knowledge, and outright errors. For the most part, we have imagined that little can be done beyond working harder and harder to catch the problems clean up after them. We are not in the habit of thinking the way the army pilots did as they looked upon their shiny new Model 299 bomber — a machine so complex no one was sure human beings could try it.

Nonetheless, what I saw was: better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future. So

by incorporating feedback from each success and each failure to improve their guesswork.

They believe in practice, not talent.

Indeed, the most important talent may be the talent for practice itself.

There are risks to this surgery, but they used to be much greater.

and then define a pattern around them.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

Yet, in the course of fifty cases, some teams managed to halve their operating time while others failed to improve at all. Practice, it turned out, did not necessarily make perfect.

and a completely unfair question popped into my mind.