Quotes About Improvement

He needed to "kill his darlings"—Stephen King's favorite term for letting go of stuff that just doesn't work.

This is the perfect place for insight, for a person to become somebody better.

Take what you have and just make it the best it could be.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

you have to keep upping the ante: run farther, run faster, run uphill. If you don't keep pushing and pushing and pushing some more, the body will settle into homeostasis, albeit at a different level than before, and you will stop improving. This

If you wish to become significantly better at something, you can.

How much you improve is up to you.

Purposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal.

In truth, all inventors only improve on what's come before them. They should be called innovators rather than inventors.

Learn from others and never cease trying to be the best you can possibly be...If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it's going to adversely affect the things over which you have control.

Even the bad interviews I think you learn from. They make you better.

In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say.

In order to eliminate injustices and to ensure there would be less controversy, I would introduce technology that would make refereeing better.

Joy makes us want to invest more deeply in the people around us. It makes us want to learn more about our communities. It makes us want to be able to find ways of being able to make this a better external world for all of us.

The more you know about your country, your people, you invest better in your craft.

Any way you can invest in yourself to make you play better is a good thing.

If we don't invest in education we'll continue to be dead last.

When I was growing up, I was always outside. I think that's helped me, as far as athletics go, but to improve in anything, you just have to invest time.

Sometimes you invest in things that don't make money yet, but you want to make them better.

People want to use products where they feel like the people who deliver those products are invested in making it better for them.

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

There is always room for improvement; so I always invite criticism from my audience.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

If there's another iPhone that's better, that's sad for my old iPhone. But it means we get to use a better one.