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Quotes About Improvement

When his management team gathers, the focus is never on what is going well; it's on the handful of problems that need to be addressed.
~ Patricia Crisafulli
Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.
~ Patricia Highsmith
If the good news from cyberspace is that we're writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren't very good at it. Our words don't do justice to our ideas.
~ Patricia T. O'Conner
If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, 'What is the worst that can possibly happen?' Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.
~ Dale Carnegie
freeing up time for more valuable endeavors, such as advanced training. He
~ Dale Carnegie
In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.
~ Dale Carnegie
Once he found learning was easy, his whole life changed.
~ Dale Carnegie
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
~ Dale Carnegie
If a man feels unimportant or disrespected, he will have little motivation for improving himself.
~ Dale Carnegie
What a difference that made!
~ Dale Carnegie
Cuando llegué a reconocer que esta actitud me estaba llevando a la quiebra, probé una táctica distinta. Empecé a decir: "En nuestra agencia hemos cometido tantos errores, que con frecuencia me siento avergonzado. Es posible que nos hayamos equivocado en su caso. Dígame cómo fue".
~ Dale Carnegie
6. Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress as becomingly as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise, criticize not at all, nor find fault with anything and not try to regulate nor improve anyone. 7. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime.
~ Dale Carnegie
The next time Trouble—with a capital T—backs you up in a corner, try the magic formula of Willis H Carrier: a. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can't solve my problem?" b. Prepare yourself mentally to accept the worst—if necessary. c. Then calmly try to improve upon the worst—which you have already mentally agreed to accept.
~ Dale Carnegie
Rule 2 is: If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.
~ Dale Carnegie
PRINCIPLE 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be 'hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
~ Dale Carnegie
En nuestra agencia hemos cometido tantos errores, que con frecuencia me siento avergonzado. Es posible que nos hayamos equivocado en su caso. Dígame cómo fue".
~ Dale Carnegie
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
~ Dale Carnegie
Instead of waiting for our enemies to criticize us or our work, let's beat them to it. Let's be our own most severe critic. Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word.
~ Dale Carnegie
un profundo, impulsivo deseo de aprender, una vigorosa decisión de aumentar su capacidad para tratar con la gente.
~ Dale Carnegie
Life as usual must go. It will be replaced by something far better.
~ Dallas Willard
falling short to deliver responses is one of the most popular blunders that innovators create.
~ Dan Anderson
Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.
~ Dan Millman
Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.
~ Dan Millman
Learning is a process of refining errors to the point where they no longer prevent our desired goal.
~ Dan Millman