Quotes About Improvement

Change always happens... We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

A defence of the Enlightenment is a defence of the modern world, along with all its possibilities for self-criticism and transformation. If you're committed to Enlightenment, you're committed to understanding the world in order to improve it.

This is the genius of my enemy! Lock a door against him and all that happens is that he learns first how to pick a lock and second how to build a better one against you!

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Make as many small, positive changes as you can. Build up that change account. Then, if you negotiate a big change and it goes badly, you will have some resources in the change bank to draw from.

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets ' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it.

the pattern of error begetting error becomes true and deadly.

Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt

what I'm best at is not Tai Chi, and it's not chess. What I'm best at is the art of learning.

So the aim is to minimize repetition as much as possible, by having an eye for consistent psychological and technical themes of error.

The history in my regular schooling was all about progress, a world that brightened with the Enlightenment and steadily improved; a world that would continue to improve illimitably, so long as every country kept trying to be more like America and America kept trying to be more like itself.

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Lendrum's

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Love is what makes you better.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right.

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments…

People are like fine wines. If they start off good, they only get better with age.

If what we have is half, then we shall make it the very best half.

I am delighted to see the government spending more money to improve Indigenous life, and I would be happy to see even more spent.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.