Quotes About Improvement

If you perfect your skills, you won't have to depend on breaks - someone will discover you. Breaks are tremendously overrated. Its not the breaks. The way to succeed in anything is to be good at it and to keep getting better.

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

She'd been trying to improve her written Korean from appalling to merely bad.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Sin duda la primera sátira fue hecha por venganza. Utilizarla para el mejoramiento del prójimo, contra los vicios y no contra los viciosos, es ya un pensamiento domesticado, enfriado, deglutido.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

Your teeth are too perfect, Hugh. I can help you with that.

If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.

You want to be the best innkeeper you can be. He wants to be the best soldier he can be." Wilmos

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Since the human race's natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.

160Any change makes me apprehensive, even if it offers the greatest promise of improving my condition, and I am persuaded by this natural instinct of mine that I must take heed if I wish that the threads which the Fates spin so thin and weak in my case to be spun to any length. My great thanks, to my well-wishers and friends, who think so kindly of me as to undertake my welfare, but at the same time a most humble request to protect me in my current condition from any disturbance.

Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active — of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves.

Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse.

The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

The theory of universal gravitation is not cast-iron. No theory is, and there is always room for improvement. Isn't that so? Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth. . . Well, that means all theories are subject to constant testing and modification, doesn't it? And if it eventually turns out that they're not quite close enough to the truth, they need to be replaced by something that's closer. Right?

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.