Quotes About Improvement

you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying.

We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke.

once the performance level demanded of a particular attribute has been achieved, customers indicate their satiation by being less willing to pay a premium price for continued improvement in that attribute.

if you instantly improve the hygiene factors of your job, you're not going to suddenly love it. At best, you just won't hate it anymore. The opposite of job dissatisfaction isn't job satisfaction, but rather an absence of job dissatisfaction.

When a measurable trajectory of improvement has been established, determining whether a new technology is likely to improve a product's performance relative to earlier products is an unambiguous question.

The choice of the word "progress" is deliberate. It represents movement toward a goal or aspiration.

Well-managed companies are excellent at developing the sustaining technologies that improve the performance of their products in the ways that matter to their customers. This is because their management practices are biased toward: Listening to customers Investing aggressively in technologies that give those customers what they say they want Seeking higher margins Targeting larger markets rather than smaller ones

When the performance of two or more competing products has improved beyond what the market demands, customers can no longer base their choice upon which is the higher performing product.

But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Finally, we recommend most strongly that medical educators must begin teaching tomorrow's doctors to become much better at creating, improving, and managing processes and systems.

That I gave a bad blow job. She bats her eyes sweetly. Will the Big Guy forgive me? I never did it again, and I'm a much better cocksucker now, I promise.

Part of moving up in the world is realizing how much shit you used to eat.

When they were done hauling, the boys had performed surgery—cut the rotten tissue from the house and plopped it on the tray of the curb.

The publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or an invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts.

So you want to be a dancer? I asked. I want to dance better than I already do, he said.

He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

O mundo está numa situação ruim. Porém tudo vai piorar ainda mais se cada um de nós não fizer o melhor que pode.

Yet one of the main features of human existence is the capacity to rise above such conditions, to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

P]erfectionism is one of the typical hindrances on the way toward perfection.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Everyone makes mistakes. What matters is that we try to make up for them.

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

Richard has improved. You are right, said Sally. I shall go and talk to him. I shall say goodnight. What does the brain matter, said Lady Rosseter, getting up, compared with the heart? I will come, said Peter, but he sat on for a moment. What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.