Quotes About Improvement

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon

Qué pensaba yo en realidad hace quince años? Consciente de mi incredulidad me sentía culpable entre la multitud de los que creían. Puesto que sentía que no se equivocaban, decidí creer como quien se toma una aspirina. Daño no hace, y uno mejora.

Svestan da ne verujem, ose?ao sam krivicu što svi oko mene veruju. Pošto sam ose?ao da su u pravu, odlu?io sam da i sam po?nem da verujem, i to onako kako se pije aspirin. Ne škodi, a bude nam bolje.

Es muy importante entender que no se es Dios, dudar siempre de los propios actos, y considerar que no se han empleado bastante bien los años vividos. Es la única forma para intentar emplear mejor los que quedan.

To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Errors make excellent projectiles.

O progresso é a vida permanente dos povos.

The only real answer lay in the courage to see a thing clearly and try to do better. Be better.

We didn't need a new house after all. When something isn't working, you don't always need to tear down the whole structure. Sometimes you just pull down a wall, reinvent, put some new skin on the old bones. And it's lovely.

I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.

A society to be successful must maintain a balance between nurturing excellence and encouraging the average to improve.

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Books matter because kids matter and books make our kids better than we are.

Nobody is perfect. However life gives us a chance to be today what we were unable to be yesterday.

Weakness is the only fault which cannot be cured.

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

Maturity is betterment of the existing state.

Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.