Quotes About Improvement

We had progressed from "completely useless" to "moderately useful.

is also the case that depressed children who spend some time standing on their head or hug a cat for twenty minutes a day will also show improvement. Most readers of such headlines will automatically infer that the energy drink or the cat hugging caused an improvement, but this conclusion is completely unjustified. Depressed

important principle of skill training: rewards for improved performance work better than punishment of mistakes.

Psychology has come a long way.

The increase in man's power over his environment has not been accompanied by a concomitant improvement of his ability to make rational use of that power

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

The excellence reflex is a natural reaction to fix something that isn't right, or to improve something that could be better. The excellence reflex is rooted in instinct and upbringing, and then constantly honed through awareness, caring and practice. The overarching concern to do the right thing well is something we can't train for. Either it's there or it isn't.

Every business needs a core strategy to be what I call always on the improve , for us it's constant, gentle pressure.

But the worst mistake is not to figure out some way to end up in a better place after having made a mistake. We call that 'writing a great last chapter.

Or worse, he could be born perfect, and then, through some error she would never perceive, grow up and destroy someone else's life--for there are thousands of ways to destroy someone's life, Sara knew, but to improve someone's life, there are so few, so few!

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

through a scenario where he fails, and then you put him through it again and he succeeds. First you revealed a flaw in his armor and then you taught him how to shore up that weakness. In so doing, you brought him out the other end of the exercise as a superior warrior.

the majority of the learning on a tactical exercise comes afterwards in what is called an "after action review," where all the participants talk about what took place. This phase is so important that to not do it is to have essentially wasted the exercise.

When a training scenario does not go the way you wanted it to, then do it again, but do not ever think you are dead in an exercise.

Unconscious incompetence. This is the lowest level of mastery. Most American male teenagers are at a level of unconscious incompetence when it comes to driving. They are bad drivers. They don't know it and usually they refuse to admit it. The

You've left things better than you found them, and that's pretty much all that anybody can hope for.

You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.

You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." Pick

The discipline process is simply, 'Here is our standard and here is your performance. We've got a gap. As your leader, I am here to understand the reasons for the gap and help you to raise your game. If the gap does not go away, I will have to escalate.

simply ask five open-ended questions which they know in advance. Question one, what is going well? Two, what is not going well? Three, what are you doing to improve as a leader? Four, what are you doing to improve the organization? And, five, what can I do to help?

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.