Quotes About Improvement

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Do it, fix it, try it.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.