Quotes About Improvement

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions less and less painful with each book.

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

Reshoots are par for the course on any film. For me, I kind of love it because, as an actor, you always feel that there was a way you could have done it differently. Being able to go back and do some stuff again is always a blessing in my eyes.

I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

I want to be a better parent than I had. Even though my mom was absolutely amazing. Her and I are still best friends to this day. I think that the next generation should always be better and better.

In Paris, I will be able to learn and improve while winning.

Compton is a much safer Compton than it was in the '80s. People play in parks. People aren't afraid to be out at night.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.

Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.