Quotes About Improvement

paradoxical Toyota proverb, "Stop production so that production never has to stop.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

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error information" that they gained. (In the trial-and-error formulation of the learning process, error is the new information or learning derived from an experiment by an experimenter: it is the aspect(s) of the outcome that the experimenter did not predict.) Developers then use the new learning to modify and improve the solution under development before building and running a new trial (figure 5.1).

much process innovation by manufacturers occurs on the factory floor as they produce

Practice makes perfect.

Someone who's responsive to feedback would listen without interrupting, blaming, or accusing; ask questions for clarity; engage in discussions about next steps; and make efforts to change the behavior.

MOVING TOWARD MASTERY Don't Stop Yourself Honor How You Learn Practice

the shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity!

It is possible for children to learn and improve their eating skills in ways that will automatically lead them to a healthier diet.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

Men's graces must get the better of their faults as a farmer's crops do of the weeds--by growth. When the corn is low, the farmer uses the plough to root up the weeds; but when it is high, and shakes its palm-like leaves in the wind, he says, "Let the corn take care of them," for the dense shadow of growing corn is as fatal to weeds as the edge of the sickle.

A little damage could only be an improvement

Step Two: don't panic. When Nightingale was training me he said that if you're not dead in the first instance, then your chances of survival are much improved. 'By how much?' I'd asked. 'That depends,' said Nightingale. 'On what?' 'On what happens next,' he said.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance? One single move in the great game of history? What's your best shot? What would you consider to be the greatest mistake in world history and, more to the point, what single thing would you do to prevent it?

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

when such improvements are not forthcoming, many people will be inclined to resist change if they can.

with results that are not meaningfully better and are often worse.

and special interests, such as the banking and housing lobbies, have routinely blocked attempts to rationalize and improve the existing system.

eliminating it would be a big step backward.