Quotes About Improvement

At the end of every year our management regroups and thinks about things we did right and what we could improve.

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.

The most encouraging thing is that with the management changes there have been at Renault, they are very open to accepting that there are issues and they need to improve.

Anything that we all can do to get a little bit better or think a little bit differently or use the lens of someone else in another industry to help in your own management, I think, is really important.

If the manager thinks there is another player better than you, he is going to play, and this is the way. You have to try to improve and keep fighting and try to change the manager's mind.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

When you are young, you always want to improve, to work with great managers - and Arsene Wenger is one of the best in the world.

Obviously the chance to work with Rafa, there's not really a better situation I could be in. He's great. He takes his time with you. One-on-ones, he'll stay out after training for another hour if you need it. He's been one of the best managers I've had.

Coming to Manchester, maybe I didn't show all my potential, but in every game, I'm trying to do my best because it's very important for me, the fans, and the club. Maybe in some games it doesn't work, but I still keep working and trying to improve.

After one season, I know how well I have to play to keep playing for Manchester United.

I hope to stay many years in Manchester United and make history in this club. When I was at Porto and Atletico Madrid, I always wanted to improve to achieve my dream of playing in a team like this.

'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

I should have won more. Definitely. If I practised like Mark Selby I might have done twice as many.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

don't spoil my learning process!

I do feel responsible. He used to be able to look after himself. Now he can't. That's so different, so strange. The big question is: Is more improvement really possible, or should I stop pushing him?' [p. 153]

Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in relation to student test scores.

Le alcanzó al lado de los fogones, donde estaba probando el relleno de carne y diciéndole a la chica que lo que estaba haciendo que tenía demasiadas especies. -¡Pero está bueno!- protestó la chica. -Puede-dijo el señor Baker-, pero hay un mundo de diferencia entre algo bueno y algo perfecto, Lorna.[...]

Never make the same mistake twice. You are your best critic!

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

When a new way of doing things is vastly superior to another, then the merits of change outweigh the difficulty of change. Just because something is different does not mean it is bad. If we only kept to the old, we could never improve.

We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more from our failures than from our successes. With success, sure, we are pleased, but we often have no idea why we succeeded. With failure, it is often possible to figure out why, to ensure that it will never happen again.

When people err, change the system so that type of error will be reduced or eliminated. When complete elimination is not possible, redesign to reduce the impact.

Designers need to focus their attention on the cases where things go wrong, not just on when things work as planned.