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Quotes About Improvement

write every story, not to publish, but to be a better writer, and ipso facto, closer to publishing. Also: don't panic.
~ Sylvia Plath
There's a saying that author and speaker Jim Rohn uses that makes perfect sense here: "If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got.
~ T. Harv Eker
It's the same with people as well as all other living organisms: if you are not growing, you are dying.
~ T. Harv Eker
If you want to change
~ T. Harv Eker
Harv, if you're not doing as well as you'd like, all that means is there's something you don't know.
~ T. Harv Eker
PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: ¡Tus ingresos pueden crecer únicamente hasta donde crezcas tú!
~ T. Harv Eker
your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do!
~ T. Harv Eker
Prepárate lo mejor que puedas en el menor tiempo posible y pasa a la acción; después, ve corrigiendo por el camino.
~ T. Harv Eker
Arquivo de riqueza no 17 As pessoas ricas aprendem e se aprimoram o tempo todo. As pessoas de mentalidade pobre acreditam que já sabem tudo.
~ T. Harv Eker
Practice is called practice because it is not meant to be perfect.
~ T. Thorn Coyle
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
~ T.S. Eliot
Time-use may be the determinant of well-being that is the most susceptible to improvement.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
New learning never hurt anybody.
~ Tamora Pierce
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
~ Ted Dekker
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
~ Ted Williams
The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person's social life.
~ Temple Grandin
It is human nature to strive.
~ Temple Grandin
Behavioral trainers never talk about vices and depravity. Behaviorists are some of the most optimistic' teachers and trainers there are, because if a person or an animal isn't learning, a behaviorist is trained to examine what he is doing wrong, not what the person or animal is doing wrong. This means that behavioral teachers and trainers don't blame the student.
~ Temple Grandin
We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it. We retain just 25 percent of what we hear.
~ Julian Treasure
gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without adversity." – Donina Va'a Renata
~ Julianne MacLean
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without adversity." – Donina Va'a Renata
~ Julianne MacLean
I don't know,' he said irritably. 'Is it meant to improve you?' She swiveled toward him, eyes wide with shock. 'Because nothing could,' he added. Her mouth dropped in astonishment. Blotchy scarlet rushed her complexion. One would have thought he'd shot her. Oh dear God! He realized belatedly how wrong it had sounded. 'No! God... that is to say.. nothing is necessary to improve you. Nothing could possibly make you better... than you already are.
~ Julie Anne Long
La ciencia tiene frente al arte una gran desventaja: que la ciencia es provisional, es decir, suceptible de mejora.
~ Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
~ Julius Erving