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Quotes About Improvement

Empowerment naturally ensues for individuals as they move from complaining and victim modalities into outcomes and actions defined for direction. When that becomes the standard in a group, it creates significant improvement in the atmosphere as well as in the output.
~ David Allen
If your money is not helping you make your life better, then something is wrong. Chances are you're not making a connection between your values and the role obey plays in your life.
~ David Bach
if you don't grow, you wither
~ David Baldacci
If only I were equipped with better organs! Weren't we supposed to be getting deep bio-upgrades by the time I hit fifty? Why is the future always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in the future?
~ David Brin
When institutionalizing the culture, don't just graft it blithely onto existing processes or practices. Go deeper and question whether those processes or practices themselves need improvement.
~ David Cote
Finding and Fixing the "Hidden Factory" 1.?Map out your existing process step by step from beginning to end. 2.?Map common workarounds in case of problems. 3.?Optimize your process and involve end users. 4.?Confirm that the new processes are more efficient and improve results for end users.
~ David Cote
My first and most enduring challenge as CEO was to dramatically improve the quality of both our individual thinking and our group discussions.
~ David Cote
Ask people for suggestions on how to improve, and if they're going to reject you for being imperfect, let them do it and get it over with.
~ David D. Burns
In my practice I find that the great majority of the depressed patients referred to me improve substantially if they try to help themselves. Sometimes it hardly seems to matter what you do as long as you do something with the attitude of self-help.
~ David D. Burns
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
~ David Foster Wallace
Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.
~ David Foster Wallace
Chu says '… that because you proceed toward mastery through a series of plateaus, so there's like radical improvement up to a certain plateau and then what looks like a stall, on the plateau, with the only way to get off one of the plateaus and climb up to the next one up ahead is with a whole lot of frustrating mindless repetitive practice and patience and hanging in there.
~ David Foster Wallace
Take pains. Be perfect.
~ William Shakespeare
They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad
~ William Shakespeare
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
~ William Shakespeare
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
~ William Shakespeare
What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet. I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing, I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms, Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, And own no other function: each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, That all your acts are queens.
~ William Shakespeare
The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
~ William Shakespeare
O benefit of ill! Now I find true That better is by evil still made better; And ruin'd love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. So I return rebuk'd to my content, And gain by ills thrice more than I have spent.
~ William Shakespeare
God me such uses send, Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend.
~ William Shakespeare
Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.
~ Unknown
Não defenda suas ideias, incentive as críticas e recomendações.
~ William Ury
In all true artistic feeling, the pursuit, not the result, is the reward; for where Art is rightly pursued, it produces a continual satisfaction in the fact that, however slow, there is progress, and that progress is sure; and although the work done may have no mercantile value whatever, it may be regarded as the effort of an immortal mind striving to improve itself, and, therefore, precious.
~ Unknown
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
~ Winston S. Churchill