Quotes About Improvement

Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti. They're easily missed, mistaken, or squandered. They can be scary. And they never come with a 110% money-back guarantee. They're often nothing more than chances to improve on something other people are already doing. Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.

If you've ever dreamed of playing a hand in the development of humankind, or if you just have a burning desire to improve one small aspect of it, then you have an adventure waiting. Will you take it?

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

In any book, it is impossible to avoid some mistakes, some confusion, some incorrectness of language, and some misuse of notation. If you find any such things in the present book, then correct them or improve them for yourself, or write your own book.

a natural law of cause and effect, when we improve ourselves, the things we would like to have in our lives follow naturally. Improve who you are, and by that same law, you will improve your life.

I am learning, and I believe I shall do quite well.

Don't be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

If you had a better vocabulary, perhaps you wouldn't be failing English!

The shop enjoyed some success, particularly in raising the standard of sheep perms.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

A leader with a growth mindset believes that:   Skills come from hard work and can always be improved.   Human potential is unlimited.   Effort is required to expand knowledge and accomplish goals.   Challenges are growth opportunities.   Feedback from the team and peers is necessary for your growth.   Setbacks should be anticipated and used to help make decisions in the future; one should be adaptable to change.15

They participated in buddy drills – pulling a Jeep out of a hole and carrying each other – that were designed to build a team chemistry that had been lacking so often in the previous season.

Life has become better, comrades; life has become more cheerful."       Stalin, 19353

Has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. This girl is a liar. Expect Improvement next term.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.