Quotes About Improvement

Some are worse off than they were just a few months or years before. But the vast majority of people are much better fed, much better sheltered, much better entertained, much better protected against disease and much more likely to live to old age than their ancestors have ever been. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going rapidly upwards for 200 years and erratically upwards for 10,000 years before

First, I need to convince you that human progress has, on balance, been a good thing, and that, despite the constant temptation to moan, the world is as good a place to live as it has ever been for the average human being – even now in a deep recession.

Good things are gradual; bad things are sudden. Above all, good things evolve.

On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us? THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

In history and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things.

So growth will resume – unless prevented by the wrong policies. Somebody, somewhere, is still tweaking a piece of software, testing a new material, or transferring a gene that will make your and my life easier in the future.

We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.

Site Reliability Engineering is an approach to the operation and improvement of software applications pioneered by Google to deal with their global, multi-million-user systems. If adopted in full, SRE is significantly different from IT operations of the past, due to its focus on the "error budget" (namely defining what is an acceptable amount of downtime) and the ability of SRE teams to push back on poor software.

That affair with Tony helped my writing," she told Tacy. "I mean, it will when I get around to write. It's good for writers to suffer." Tony dropped in often, teasing and affectionate as ever, and quite unaware of having improved her art.

Fine, he said. Anything is better than what I'm supposed to be doing.

You don't just write something and it's done. You don't just do it. You write parts and you rewrite and you have new ideas and you move stuff. I don't want to talk about the book.

The indignation was too sharp and raw for a mere piece of professional gossip; each man took it as a personal insult; each felt himself qualified to alter, advise and improve the work of any man living.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. It used to take me five hours to fill that tank. It now takes three. The two I saved are mine—as pricelessly mine as if I moved my grave two further hours away for every five I've got. It's two hours released from one task, to be invested in another—two more hours in which to work, to grow, to move forward. That's

All growth demands destruction.

He thought...that man's work should be a higher step, an improvement on nature, not a degradation. He did not want to despise men; he wanted to love and admire them.

Life is growth; not to move forward, is to fall backward; life remains life, only so long as it advances.

In living entities, nature does not permit stillness: when one ceases to grow, one proceeds to disintegrate—in the mental realm no less than in the physical.

Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

about had made American life a hell of a lot better.

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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

It was his habit, when he rewrote anything, to shed himself of all earlier versions. He kept a clean house.

Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.

Medicine isn't supposed to taste good—that's what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better.