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Quotes About Improvement

The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. Thanks Egyptians
~ Paulo Coelho
And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
~ Paulo Coelho
But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyzes you is fear of making a mistake. If you ave made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time. If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make. Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.
~ Paulo Coelho
Choose what information you listen to. Place a filter over your eyes and ears and only allow in things that won't bring you down, because we have our day-to-day life to do that. Do you think I don't get judged and criticized at work? Well, I do—a lot! But I've decided to hear only the things that encourage me to improve, the things that help me correct my mistakes. Otherwise, I will just pretend I can't hear the other stuff or block it out.
~ Paulo Coelho
Generally perform no more than five reps per set in various presses and side bends. It is better to increase the difficulty by upgrading to a heavier kettlebell, selecting a more difficult press (e.g. the military rather than the side press), moving slower, pausing at different points of the lift, compressing the rest periods between the sets, or performing more sets of five reps. Use the above techniques by themselves or in any sensible combination.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
The more discrete the skills are, the easier it is to develop operational definitions of them. When the skills can be operationalized, it's easier to create interventions to improve those operations. For
~ Unknown
When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they're going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.
~ Pema Chodron
One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.
~ Mas Oyama
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
~ Florence Nightingale
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.
~ Anderson Silva
If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
~ Caio Terra
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
~ Camille Pissarro
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
~ Antoine Lavoisier
Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
~ John Bunyan
I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.
~ Erich Fromm
Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.
~ Cennino Cennini
To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.
~ Unknown
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
~ Philipp Meyer
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.
~ John French Sloan
When your art fails, make better art.
~ Seth Godin
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.
~ Frederick Lenz
My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.
~ Georges St-Pierre