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Quotes About Improvement

If you want others to accept you. Try to change the bad to good.
~ Unknown
How was your afternoon?""No one died, so it was a big improvement on my morning.
~ Unknown
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
~ William McDonough
Do things that matter, things that will make those better, and things that will make you better.
~ Jessica Walsh
The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.
~ Bruce Mau
It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.
~ Jonathan Ive
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
~ Tom Peters
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone
~ Donald A. Norman
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.
~ Robin Boyd
Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?
~ Unknown
Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.
~ Carly Fiorina
Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.
~ David Bromstad
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.
~ Unknown
Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.
~ Jonathan Ive
We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.
~ Tim Harford
I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.
~ Neil Young
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
~ Bruce Lee
I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
~ Heston Blumenthal
I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.
~ Bill de Blasio
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
~ Seneca the Younger
Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
~ Aubrey de Grey
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
~ Charles Buxton
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
~ Matt Smith