Quotes About Improvement

Errors are too common and widespread to be explained so simply.

Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.

but the redness became virtually unnoticeable.

perfect their skills, and move on to a better position.

about whether the person could safely be kept on the job, and about how things might be turned around.

I offered no excuses. I promised to be better prepared for such cases and to be quicker to ask for help.

Obstetrics went about improving the same way Toyota and General Electric went about improving: on the fly, but always paying attention to the results and trying to better them. And

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What's more, Eleanor's fever had gone away;

When should we try to fix and when should we not?

much about it. When

First drafts always fall apart, he said, and one needs to study how, make changes, and keep testing until the checklist works consistently

We know the patterns. We see the costs. It's time to try something else. Try a checklist.

we need practice to get good at what we do.

In AA, you are brainwashed into believing that all the good stuff happens only after you stop drinking. Clearly they are lying; my life improved significantly as soon as I ordered a cocktail.

Things oughtn't to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better. In

As far as work goes, maybe instead of changing jobs, I should be changing the way I am doing my job. I'd probably have a better position by now if I did.

Seguimos haciendo lo mismo de siempre, una y otra vez, y encima nos preguntamos por qué no mejoran las cosas.

He wondered why he had always thought that a change would lead to something worse. Now he realized that change could lead to something better.

the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you. change.

I enjoyed the feeling that comes with becoming a better person.

mayor inhibidor del cambio se encuentra dentro de uno mismo, y que nada puede mejorar mientras no cambie uno mismo.

Patriotism does not mean that you think your country is perfect, or blameless, or even particularly likeable on balance; nor does it mean that you serve it blindly, go where it tells you to go and kill whom it tells you to kill. It means that you are committed to keeping it alive and making it better, that you will do whatever seems necessary (up to and including dying) to protect it whenever you, personally, perceive a mortal threat to it, military or otherwise.