Quotes About Improvement

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

But the basic strategy for increasing feel is consciously to switch games from a game of results to one of awareness. Usually, it is overconcern with results that leads to overcontrol and decreased feel, so change your goal to increasing awareness. Pick any awareness technique and increase your focus on whatever feel is there. Don't judge it as good or bad; merely observe it. Feel will pick up immediately, and improved results will follow as a matter of course.

the key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.

It is time for the destruction of error.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

I think if Rusian and U.S. presidents meet each other, if they exchange views, then there will be a chance for our volatile relations to get better.

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

A better you means a better universe.

If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You're 100% better.

After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform