Quotes About Improvement

The books Superforecasting (by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner) and How to Measure Anything (by Douglas W. Hubbard) have some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions. And Decisive (by Chip Heath and Dan Heath) explains four of the biggest judgment errors (like framing your decision too narrowly, or letting temporary emotions cloud your judgment) and gives tips for combating them.

Excellence is the next five minutes, improvement is the next five minutes, happiness is the next five minutes. This doesn't mean you ignore planning. I encourage you to make huge, ambitious plans. Just remember that the big-beyond-belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each "moment of impact," one step at a time. I've had a life full of doubts . . . mostly for no good reason.

If it's not ready, we're not going to send it out, and just hope they don't notice that it's not that good. We'll fix it. We'll do something else, but don't try to slip by something that you know is below the standard.' You

The Point of Journalism Is the Truth "The point of journalism is the truth. The point of journalism is not to improve society. There are things, there are facts, there are truths that actually feel regressive, but it doesn't matter, because the point of journalism isn't to make everything better. It's to give people accurate information about how things are.

PICK THE RIGHT AUDIENCE TO SUCK IN FRONT OF "If anybody is going to go out and pitch investors, my advice is to make your first 10 meetings with investors that you don't really want funding from, because you're probably going to suck in the beginning. I sucked for a really long time." TF:

Few Indians or castes fought to forge a new nation called Mexico; such a scheme would have made little sense, and held little interest, for them. They fought in the hope that their lot in life might in some way improve. The

A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.

what gets measured can be improved.

Your work gets better when you let go of your anger," Harrison said. "Because anger is always didactic, and the didactic is of no value for a novelist

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

Poder derrotar a la competencia se basa en la calidad del producto. Diseñar métodos de producción a prueba de tontos, instrumentarlos con cuidado, vigilar cada proceso en forma minuciosa, y mejorar los métodos de manera continua.

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

In 1774, John Adams wrote in his diary, "We have not men fit for the times. We are deficient in genius, education, in travel, fortune—in everything.

It's possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That's what happens when you drive out slack.

I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.

I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.

It's great knowing going into the week that you have a guy like Peyton Manning that's going to throw you the ball. You know that during the week, he's working on different things that's going to help our offense, stuff that makes you get better.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

Offense, defense - on both ends of the floor - figuring that out. I'll keep watching the film and see where I can keep getting better.

Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.