Quotes About Improvement

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

We can not suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed, in many cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.

Puede decirse metafóricamente que la selección natural está haciendo diariamente, y hasta por horas, en todo el mundo, el escrutinio de las variaciones más pequeñas; desechando las que son malas, conservando y acumulando las que son buenas, trabajando insensible y silenciosamente donde y cuando se presenta una oportunidad, en el mejoramiento de todo ser orgánico en relación con sus condiciones orgánicas e inorgánicas de vida.

The Grecian poet, Theognis ... saw how important selection, if carefully applied, would be for the improvement of mankind. He saw likewise that wealth often checks the proper action of sexual selection.

Though nature grants vast periods of time for the work of natural selection, she does not grant an indefinite period; for as all organic beings are striving, it may be said, to seize on each place in the economy of nature, if any one species does not become modified and improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated.

If we have any role at all, I think it's the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perfect, but which can be improved. In other words, we don't just sit and hope that things will work out; we have a role to play to make that come about.

We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.

You have to do that every day, whether you're playing football or just in life in general. You've got to look yourself in mirror, and say, 'Hey, this what I'm not doing right.'

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.

I can't have no assists and five turnovers. If you have no assists and five turnovers, you have to look yourself in the mirror and figure out how to adjust.

At the end of every season I look in the mirror and ask myself what can I do better? Where did I screw up this year?

I practice for hours in front of the mirror. I constantly deliver my routine in front of my friends.

If I have misplaced a pass, I want to know why I've done that or whether I could have looked at a different pass.

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

After games, you think about the play you missed.

I've missed before in college and high school. If you miss, you figure out what went wrong and kick the next one.

I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.

To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that.

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

That irritates me the most - missing tackles.

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

I realized that there are many people who are very good students, but they think of themselves as bad students. At the end of the day, what they are really missing is way to understand where their gaps are and a way to address those gaps.