Quotes About Improvement

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

I've read a lot of first-rate writing, and I have some critical sense; so I know where I stand. I'll never be first rate. I'll improve with practice, I trust, but I haven't got what it takes to reach the top.

If you want to heal a relationship, the first relationship you need to improve is the one with yourself.

Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, don't let him stop for the sake of small faults, but point them out to him when he has played the piece through. . . I have always adopted this plan; it soon forms musicians which, after all, is one of the first aims of art and it gives less trouble both to master and pupil.

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the "American way of life.

The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change.

Most actions do not aim at anybody's defeat or loss. They aim at an improvement in conditions.

It then dawned on me that all real improvements in the conditions of the working classes were the result of Capitalism. And that social laws frequently brought about the very opposite of what the legislation was intended to achieve.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.

But I do know that my own shittiest days were usually followed by better ones.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

skill that requires constant practice and proper training. To

If you are observationally "challenged," do not despair. You can overcome your weakness in this area if you are willing to devote time and effort to observing your world more conscientiously.

It turns out loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself. And as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

Remember, however, that your willingness to change and your success is proportional to the knowledge you obtain. This

to repent of my former patterns of thinking and live in exchange for something far better.

This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits }