Quotes About Improvement

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice, should go a little farther, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labour to renew...

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

Your lean process should be a lean process.

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that's work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that's what continuous improvement is all about.

Different isn't always better, but better is always different.

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 can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Learning implies that every person in every process must have the freedom to observe and identify change and have the power to recommend opportunities for improvement.

let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by

He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death

Mistakes need correction not punishment

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved.

Where do we start if we are to improve communication with children? By examining how we respond. We even know the words. We heard our parents use them with guests and strangers. It is a language that is protective of feelings, not critical of behavior. What

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

The best way to encourage more of the behavior you want is to create the conditions in which that behavior will arise naturally. This is absolutely true of the questioning required for process improvement in a workplace.

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

If you seek to correct a subordinate's overall behavior or performance, start by telling them what they do well, then tell them where they need to improve.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it.

As in golf, so in the rest of our lives. We practice our strengths but ignore our weaknesses. You can see the waste. You can only improve your strengths so much, if at all. Even if you improve them, there's a good chance no one will notice; slight improvements are hard to spot. What people do notice are your weaknesses; if you can improve those, your improvement can be dramatic, and visible to everyone. Find your weaknesses and work on them.

Things will get better only when you make the changes that are necessary to make them better.

Even if step three didn't work (which it does), just applying steps one and two must improve your memory for names and faces, because you've done what most people don't do—you've paid attention; you've listened and looked.