Quotes About Improvement

If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation.

A rising call for creative new solutions. Just look at a broad swath of industries that matter fundamentally to who we are: health care

In a study of business launches in 108 companies, we found that 86% of those new ventures were line extensions—incremental improvements to existing industry offerings—and a mere 14% were aimed at creating new markets or industries.

Like a good gardener who knows when the soil needs alkali and when acid, the competent tennis pro should be able to help the development of your game.

key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.

I don't think anyone's Self 2 needs improvement from birth to death. It has always been fine. I, more than anyone, need to remember that. Yes, our backhands can improve, and I'm sure my writing can get better; certainly our skills in relating to each other on the planet can improve. But the cornerstone of stability is to know that there is nothing wrong with the essential human being.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

Doing some late-night home improvements, my man? (...) For what it's worth, I never had any use for that froufrou French shit, either." - Tegan

The present was better. Much, much better. Humans had coffee now. And gelato.

Conceptualize that primary prevention extends beyond the individual by improving health outcomes of entire communities

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

First two cells to diddle each other's genes: 'I'm only doing this, Anita, because I want your descendants to be an improvement on you.' 'Egotist.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.

Small steps will have transformational results.

He (Thomas Smith) believed with complete conviction that no animal was permanently ruined. Every horse could be improved. He lived by a single maxim: 'Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast.

Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.

Every step forward counts, every step forward makes the next one easier.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it

Despite the usual reputation of self-help, the truth is that most self-help readers already have their lives together. People pick up books on time management because their lives are good, and yet they can see in that goodness that there is space for even more wonder.

I turn to look over my shoulder - in a minute, I will lay down my pen - and think, write that there is only one thing I know for certain, and it has everything to do with "happy". Indeed, it is the last thing I will say on the subject: There is not a story, in the entire history of the world, that cannot be improved upon by the inclusion of a character named Kit.

true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.