Quotes About Improvement

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

High quality programs require and foster a norm of continuous teaching improvement.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden

Coach Wooden's philosophy is for players and students to improve a little every day and make perfection the goal. His method for improving conditioning included one painful demand—each player, when reaching the point of exhaustion, was to push himself beyond. When this is done every day, top condition will be attained over time.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)

cuando se trata de talento: cuanto más ayude usted a las personas a ser mejores, más se ayudan ellas entre sí a ser mejores.

Superbosses suggest a very clear solution to this problem: protect the "why" of your business, but be prepared to constantly improve everything about the "how" of your business as if your life depended on it.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time -- what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better...

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank.

We talked about how feeling a little better made her feel much better

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.

You can't get better without sacrifice. It requires a tolerance to discomfort.

Nobody's so great that they can't get better.

Only the Gemba Can Do Cost Reduction

To implement the Toyota production system in your own business, there must be a total understanding of waste. Unless all sources of waste are detected and crushed, success will always be just a dream.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.

You still got a ways to go.

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

mindfulness practice improved the ability of the meditators' brains to control their negative emotions.