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Quotes About Improvement

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.
~ Rick Bass
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
~ Eric Bana
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
~ Geddy Lee
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
~ George Eliot
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
~ George Orwell
I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
~ Georges St-Pierre
Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.
~ Harvey V. Fineberg
A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.
~ Heidi Julavits
Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Don't worry about things, that you can do better next time. Don't worry about stuff you can't control.
~ Hillary Clinton
Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.
~ Howard Stern
It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an actor all the time. In that, all mediums become important in their own ways.
~ Indraneel Bhattacharya
I'm learning on the guitar all the time.
~ James Vincent McMorrow
We lose all that time which we might employ better.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!
~ Jerry Coleman
... when I hear people say that penmanship is dead, my response: it's about time.
~ Jessica Bennett
If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.
~ Joe Teti
When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.
~ John Calipari
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.
~ John Steinbeck
We live in the least ugly time in history.
~ Joshua Bell
When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
~ Joshua Foer
It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
~ Julia Cameron