Quotes About Improvement

Predicting the future is a mug's game, but any game is improved when you can actually keep the score.

Total Quality Management

Hard work is far more valuable than talent. The world is littered with brilliant, talented, lazy nobodies. Almost the entire workforce of Starbucks is populated by a bunch of geniuses that "nobody gets, man." If you have talent and you don't have the stones to get up every day and perfect that talent, accept criticism, look at yourself honestly, suck on the hard lozenge of failure, and try to constantly and consistently improve, well then, you don't have shit.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Anyone can criticize. But no ordinary talent can justify his criticism with concrete suggestions that really improve something.

Je ne crois pas qu'avoir étudié soit une si grande chose si l'on n'étudie plus. »

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too often drowned out by the exaggerations, demonizations, and hate-filled lies put forth by Israel's enemies. Criticism is the lifeblood of democracy and a sure sign of admiration for an imperfect democracy seeking to improve itself.

Our tendency to point out the weaknesses of others is a way to avoid facing our own shortcomings and areas needing improvement.

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization's improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

AFTER YEARS OF BEING ASKED to do more with less, managers are increasingly aware that they cannot produce the results that are expected of them with the organizations they currently have and the methods they currently use.

Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?

IF PEOPLE WOULD only be satisfied with the essentials and if they'd only try to improve everyone else's well-being and share in their common concerns, they'd conquer the world and have more than they ever wanted from it. —RABBI BAHYA IBN PAQUDA (11TH CENTURY)

There is a big difference between eliminating waste and not creating it in the first place.

I think that people's nature is always to want a better life. So from that, we should not expect human beings to behave for benefit of the rest of nature-of the environment. You can only expect people to help the environment out of their own interest" Proffessor Zheng Zhe

You grow based on exploiting strengths, not by acclimating to weaknesses.

When you settle for "vanilla" objectives such as "increased clarity," or "more confidence," or "higher commitment" (which I call "human resources objectives" because they are so weak and nonmeasurable), you deny yourself the opportunity to create dynamic ROI, where the client receives huge benefit and your equitable compensation is quite reasonable in light of that improvement.

The only measure that matters is improved results—an improved client condition, in this case represented by objectives met and validated by key metrics.

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.

As coaches, whether we're making personnel decisions or not, we're all critical of ourselves. We always want to get better. We push our players to do that. But nobody bats 1.000.

We want to be better players than we do a pest, but you have to find something to do coming into the League.