Quotes About Improvement

There's always a sense of, 'Oh, if I change my irons, they might not be as good or might not perform as well.'

I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.

Actually - and ironically - people aren't really interested in a new brand form or flavor as much as they are interested in how a brand can change, impact, or improve their lives. They want brands around them that make them feel special and provide some social cache or confidence.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

Italian football has a lot of appeal, even though it must improve.

The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues.

With what I have learned in Italy, if I have the chance to learn something more in England I think it would make me a more complete, better player.

I've been working a lot on my jab.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

So it may be that reading your work aloud will not only improve its quality but save your life in the process.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem. 

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Nunca mejora su estado quien muda solamente de lugar, y no de vida y costumbres.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.