Quotes About Improvement

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

When you wrap up a task for someone who counts on you and/ or your team, why not take a moment to ask how it went? Why not ask, "Hey, how easy were we to work with?" In fact, why not ask them to rate you on a scale of one to 10 to let you know how hassle-free the experience of working with you or buying from you was? If you get any score less than a 10, then ask, "What would I need to do to get that up to a 10?

The plan of happiness is pro-progression; thus the desire to progress is hardwired into our divine DNA. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we crave the feeling of moving forward, learning, growing, and improving—even if our steps forward are small and intermittent. That is why the lack of even modest progress leads to disillusionment and discouragement, whereas steady progress instills peace of mind and optimism.

And to leave the people we meet and the places we visit better than we found them.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Everyone changed. But it was rare to meet anyone who could be relied upon to change for the better.

Adversity didn't improve everyone—or the world would be filled with men and women of flawless character and sublime insight.

In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

We all have unlimited shortcomings. Yet one way of seeing things is to consider our lives as a time frame that allows us continually to work at changing our weaknesses into strengths. This, I must say, is an intriguing task.

If science were to make enlightenment massively available to humanity, we should expect to see numerous and stunning positive improvements in the human situation: dramatic reduction in conflict and violence from the interpersonal level to the international level, reduction in crime and substance addiction, vast improvement in the global baseline of physical and mental health, and probably even a general elevation of human intelligence.

I will ensure that Japan keeps getting better--better this year than last year, and better next year than this year.