Quotes About Improvement

free men, whose minds were properly on their business, found a satisfaction in improving, cultivating, and providing for their families; but negroes, laboring to support others who claim them as their property, and expecting nothing but slavery during life, had not the like inducement to be industrious.

As Lao-tse pointed out, the bad can be raw material for the good. So quite often, the easiest way to get rid of a Minus is to change it into a Plus.

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.

Being injured gives you the chance to reflect on the players who play in your position, too. You see things you can do, things you can maybe do better.

'Shadow and Bone' was my first book, and I think I was unconsciously echoing a lot of the fantasy that I had grown up with, which sets a kind of default for straight white characters. And that's something I've tried to improve on as I write, to write more authentically and reflect the people around me in the world, around me more realistically.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

If I get on the golf course, my basketball game is a direct reflection of how many rounds of golf I can get. So, the more rounds of golf, the better I play.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Reform, that we may preserve.

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

We have no choice but to reform this country.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

As people in business know, if you just sit on your hands and don't progress with the changing environment, you won't reform and improve the existing relationships you have.

I know from my days working on education reform in government that it's almost impossible to exaggerate how little those who work on education policy think about 'how to improve learning.'

How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

I'll say the year 2020 will be known as the year of reforms.

I want to get to a level where I am regarded as one of the best and coming to a club like Chelsea gives me the right platform to improve.

In the end, we all seek one thing in life, regardless of gender: to be recognized for the hard work we have done and to leave our sport or business or entity in a better place than when we came in.