Quotes About Improvement

Young Bell and Edison were the same age, each improving the major invention that the other had come up with first, Edison following Bell, then Bell following Edison. Edison, in fact, had been close to devising a working telephone himself. After Bell's success, the next best thing for Edison was to come up with an indispensable improvement, the carbon transmitter that captured the human voice far better than Bell's magnetic design. Edison

Everything is as it's supposed to be at that moment. But change is the rule, the guiding principle. All is flux. All is refinement, correction, rectification. And that, my love, is the reason for everything. Change. And its potential for improvement." She almost groaned out loud. Another

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody ever complains about practice with beer.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they've given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. Worry when you do something badly and nobody bothers to tell you.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

NO MATTER how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better.

Previše ljudi ide kroz život žale?i se na svoje probleme. Uvijek sam vjerovao da bi se energija koja se troši na pritužbe trebala primijeniti na rješavanje problema i ljudi bi bili iznena?eni poboljšanjem situacije.

Andy, I just gave my students a two-week assignment and they came back and did stuff that, had I given them an entire semester to complete it, I would have given them all A's. What do I do?" Andy thought for a minute and said: "OK. Here's what you do. Go back into class tomorrow, look them in the eyes and say, 'Guys, that was pretty good, but I know you can do better.

Practice makes man perfect but CONFIDENCE makes PRACTICE PERFECT....

My thinking is my possession; always ready to exchange for a better version of that.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot

we invent tools—to compensate for our shortcomings.

Only technology, with its ability to provide orders of magnitude of improvement in capability and affordability, has the scale to confront problems such as poverty, disease, pollution, and the other overriding concerns of society today.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.