Quotes About Improvement

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that will sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. —Robert F Kennedy South Africa,

It's the most talented, not the least talented, who are continually trying to improve their dialogue skills. As is often the case, the rich get richer.

Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.

The right use of kaizen in Operational Excellence is using kaizen to eliminate the need for management in the flow of product to the customer.

In the road to greatness, practice is always essential.

Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can't write and edit or sculpt and polish or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don't select. While you sketch, don't inspect. While you write the first draft, don't reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment.

So I now see upgrading as a type of hygiene: You do it regularly to keep your tech healthy.

The end is almost always the beginning of something better.

One thing you should not fear is competition. They only help to raise your game and build a better product. If they are better than you, you deserve to lose." Peldi in Do! the pursuit of xceptional execution

Protopia is a state of becoming, rather than a destination. It is a process. In the protopian mode, things are better today than they were yesterday, although only a little better. It is incremental improvement or mild progress.

It's an upgrade arms race.

the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

If AI can help humans become better chess players, it stands to reason that it can help us become better pilots, better doctors, better judges, better teachers.

I could continue with a list of other challenges faced by our current religious institutions, but addressing these three areas would be a great start toward improving the lives of Black males: Stop thinking of divinity as limited to the confines of a building. Stop building our faith on fear of damnation. Stop seeking personal salvation above the good of the whole.

If your code needs comments, consider refactoring it so it doesn't.

You don't have to make every module perfect before you check it in. You simply have to make it a little bit better than when you checked it out.

Instead of simply correcting mistakes in code, the purpose of code reviews should be to share knowledge and establish common coding guidelines.

While improvement in your habits and actions is a life-long process, the desire to achieve it can thus be sparked in a moment.

If your workshop praises a poem, don't think everyone is too nice to tell you how terrible it really is. (If it is that kind of workshop, you should get out of it as soon as possible—honest feedback is the sign that people respect your writing and take it seriously.)

Beginning writers tend to think that craft is their enemy. As long as they believe that, they will remain beginners, no matter how many years they write.

Though now that I think about it, the workshop that day was probably focused on revision, as in Your First Draft Sucks and You Have a Thousand Do-Overs Before You Get It Right. Think of it this way: Build a city, then blow it up to save it. Invent a road to take you far out of town, then start over with one good brick.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.