Quotes About Improvement

what had kept Lewis going all those years with so little outside support was the idea of improvement as an end in itself.

The Holy Spirit is the Expert Spirit, and His touch improves every action of the believer.

The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or lesser, to human nature. 'Tis impossible to tell what changes and improvements we might make in these sciences were we thoroughly acquainted with the extent and force of human understanding, and could explain the nature of the ideas we employ, and of the operations we perform in our reason.

I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvement of my talents in literature.

Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong.

You need slack to enable continuous improvement. You need to balance demand against throughput and limit the quantity of work-in-progress to enable slack.

David J. Anderson

Put simply, excessive defects are the biggest waste in software development

encourage teams to inspect code every day for at least 30 minutes.

Reducing the quantity of design-in-progress boosts software quality.

David J. Anderson

The Value of Kanban is Counter-Intuitive

When a particular measure is used as an indicator of the performance of a system, people may choose to target that measure, improving its value but at the cost of other aspects of the system.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better…just a little at a time.

Une deuxième couche" was to make sure they gave another coat of paint to a wall

It would be a sort of Robinson Crusoe life, but with abundant materials for surrounding oneself with comforts, and improving the improvable among the natives. Clothing would require but small expense: four suits of strong tweed served me comfortably for five years. Woollen clothing is the best; if all wool, it wears long and prevents chills. The

If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.