Quotes About Improvement

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

Life is a mess - a random muddle. Which is exactly why one is drawn to improving on it.

A wise man is capable of determining his weaknesses and working to address them

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop.

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence

At one point quantity turned into quality.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

The purpose of feedback is to improve conceptual understanding or increase strategic options while developing stamina, resilience, and motivation—expanding the vision of what is possible and how to get there.

I'm not good at this yet" and to take steps to change that.

If you're going to offer critique, focus on the process and possibility.

Marie Clay (1993) refers to this as attending to the "partially correct." Its significance cannot be overstated.

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

installed central air conditioning, bought big refrigerator/

reflexive loop":

A special case of shifting the burden, which recurs with alarming frequency, is eroding goals. Whenever there is a gap between our goals and our current situation there are two sets of pressures: to improve the situation and to lower our goals. How these pressures are dealt with is central to the discipline of personal mastery

Ultimately, the payoff from integrating systems thinking and mental models will be not only improving our mental models (what we think) but altering our ways of thinking: shifting from mental models dominated by events to mental models that recognize longer-term patterns of change and the underlying structures producing those patterns.

Practice doesn't make perfect," he used to say. "Perfect practice does.

I am keeping my powder dry for a political system that will improve my golf game, my blues piano licks and my cooking. Until them, please keep the political scum in your yard. Thank you.

Struggle a little bit! At first, it'll be difficult—or awkward—struggling on purpose. But every technique created by Sandler Training requires practice—reinforcement training—to accomplish it.

You need slack to enable continuous improvement. In order to have slack, you must have an unbalanced value stream with a bottleneck resource. Optimizing for utilization is not desirable.