Quotes About Improvement

Some people have said that man has improved . . . [and] that if Christ came back today, He would not be crucified but would be given a glorious reception. Christ does come to us every day in the form of Bibles that we do not read, in the form of churches that we do not attend, in the form of human need that we pass by. I am convinced that if Christ came back today, He would be crucified more quickly than He was two thousand years ago. Sin never improves. Human nature has not changed.

I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better.

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

Every day we get better, or we get worse.

Thus the social order overthrown by a revolution is almost always better than the one immediately preceding it, and experience teaches us that, generally speaking, the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

board as a whole, there is a particular need to learn how to be comfortable with being constructively critical

learning audit – on what could be done more, what could be done less, and what is satisfactory.

I made so many B pictures I began to get fan mail from hornets...and for me that was an improvement.

If you have to hold an employee accountable, replace that employee with a better one who takes responsibility so you don't have to.

I am always doing that which I cannot do in order to learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso.

Each day brings us an opportunity to improve. Our skills and processes are important in our success, our attitude will keep us sharp as we understand that attitude will determine how far we go.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

Förbättra dig. Det enda du kan göra för att göra världen bättre är att förbättra dig själv.

I have calmed down a little and my work is going better than yesterday, so well, in fact, that it does itself and I can slip back into the womb of time, into my youth, when I ironed my trousers and shined my shoes, soles included, every Saturday, because when you're young you love keeping clean, you love your self-image, an image you still have time to improve.

Many of us have joined a swim team at one time or another, and there is a shared foundational experience here that's worth examining. Battle past the desperate life-or-death phase of swimming, and you begin to appreciate how good the water feels. Join a team, and you begin to appreciate the company you keep. Competition happens when you get good enough at swimming to want to be better.

When one takes a broad survey of the country, he will find that the most useful and influential people in it are those who take the deepest interest in institutions that exist for the purpose of making the world better.

The ministry was the profession that suffered most—and still suffers, though there has been great improvement—on account of not only ignorant but in many cases immoral men who claimed that they were "called to preach.

they are glad that we started as we did, and built ourselves up year by year, by a slow and natural process of growth.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.

If one could only tear down his character, as old buildings are torn down, and build it up anew, as these are rebuilt! And so, in effect, it can be. A noble property of character is, that it is susceptible of improvement.