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Quotes About Improvement

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
~ Winston S. Churchill
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.
~ Unknown
Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.
~ Woody Allen
Love betters what is best
~ Wordsworth
Success Should Never Breed Complacency
~ Xenophon
no speech of admonition can be so fine that it will all at once make those who hear it good men if they are not good already; it would surely not make archers good if they had not had previous practice in shooting; neither would it make lancers good, nor horsemen; it cannot even make men able to endure bodily labour, unless they have been trained to it before.
~ Xenophon
We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
~ Christopher McDougall
Running is the same way. Learn it wrong, and you'll never know how good it can feel.
~ Christopher McDougall
V?l k?da Ledvilas le?enda ir su?u bar?bas magn?ts M?ršals Alriks, kurš uzlaboja savu skriešanas ?trumu, likdams ?irur?iski no?emt sev k?ju pirkstu nagus. " Tie t?pat man krita nost, " paskaidroja M?ršals.
~ Christopher McDougall
it's like in life, you have obstacles and you train to overcome them. You search for the best technique. You keep the best, you repeat it, and then you get better.
~ Christopher McDougall
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
~ Chuck Jones
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.
~ Chuck Jones
All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
~ Chuck Jones
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In any of the arts, you never stop learning.
~ Claire Bloom
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
~ Clara Barton
De toekomst had tenminste het voordeel niet het heden te zijn, wat slecht is kan altijd beter worden.
~ Clarice Lispector
Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog.
~ Clarissa Dickson Wright
Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
~ Clay Aiken
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
~ Cleo Moore
It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.
~ Clifford Odets
A teacher can't teach you how to write. What a teacher can do is show a writer how not to write.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.
~ Unknown