Quotes About Improvement

I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.

Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

I really don't want to win. I just want to improve and be better than I was.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

We're all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I've had to work harder than most.

She was everything to him—his friend, his lover, his conscience, his passion. She was the answer to all the prayers he'd never had enough sense to pray. And if he wasn't as perfect for her as he wanted to be, she'd just have to work harder to improve him.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Perfection is a moving target

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence.

let's think about why you need a grammar book at all.

practice this skill with this book.