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Quotes About Improvement

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
~ Ernest Gaines
Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'
~ Jeffrey R. Immelt
At my restaurants, we have training drills before every meal. We talk about what we did yesterday that was great and what we can improve today.
~ Danny Meyer
I always try to be better than yesterday.
~ Dejan Lovren
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
~ James Howell
When you're young, you don't really think about what's going on. At least, in my case, I was always so hooked on being so innovative and didn't worry about what happened yesterday. I just wanted to focus on today and make it better. I was like that every day. I just made sure that every night I was at my best, at the best level I could be.
~ Rey Mysterio
I want to be in a better position than what I was yesterday. The only way that can happen is by eliminating any negative ill will or feelings toward anyone.
~ Brian Banks
I had a horrendous photo for my hundred yesterday, so I needed to make sure I wasn't going too nuts to make sure the 200 photo was better.
~ Will Pucovski
I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.
~ Daniel Snyder
It's about being a better player today than you were yesterday.
~ Kyle Lowry
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.
~ Martha Stewart
I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.
~ Alistair Overeem
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.
~ Michael Gerber
The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Myself, I always tell people that if you're not getting better you're only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.
~ Kofi Kingston
I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.
~ Sam Hinkie
Each day I go to train and I'm like, 'This is what I did well yesterday, and this is where I need to improve.'
~ Liz Carmouche
Hybrids have become an important method for improving productivity or yield in many crops including the self-pollinated crop like rice.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.
~ Susan Glaspell
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
~ David F. Houston