Quotes About Improvement

I learnt since I was a child growing up in a small village in the Czech Republic that I had to be like that to compete, to be the best and then to compete against the best. There has not been a second, a minute, an hour, a day that I have missed because I always wanted to improve.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

I think the biggest part of being on a sound system is wanting to always be the best.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritionist - and I brought them on board.

I think anyone in life, everyone in the world, no matter what work they do, they should think of wanting to get on, to win, improve.

We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that.

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

The Warriors are competition, and competition makes the best of us.

When I dreamed about flying, it was as a skill I needed to regain.

That's what life is about, isn't it? We're all works in progress, aren't we, just trying to become a little better every day?

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

That man is idle who can do something better.

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to 'play God', the world as we know it wouldn't exist today.