Quotes About Improvement

The secret to mastery in any field is to forever be a student.

capacity of a gnat. She could see that it was better

Look for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.

I found the city built of brick and left it built of marble,' this

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees - upon being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks

Practice makes perfect.....But nobody's perfect......so why practice?

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

attempting to maximize utilization is a self-defeating process. Optimal utilization can be achieved only by concentrating on flow.

true productivity has to be measured relative to the outcomes of the overall system, not just the software. Just producing a lot of lines of code or function points is irrelevant; the real question is, How much improvement in customer outcomes has the development team generated?

The purpose of process standards is to act as a baseline for continuous improvement.

Fui felice di sfoggiare quel poco che sapevo; e poiché mi sentivo già a mio agio con lui, gli domandai perché mai un vecchio volesse frequentare la scuola. Non si risentì; rispose che per un vecchio non imparare ciò che avrebbe potuto renderlo migliore era assai più disonorevole che per i ragazzi, dato che aveva avuto tutto il tempo di comprenderne l'importanza".

You will never kiss really well, Mr Darcy,' she said, 'unless you practise more. You cannot expect to excel if you do not practise a great deal.

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.

So let God know what you're doing just by doing it or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.

The essence of 5S is to follow what has been agreed on. It begins with discarding what we don't need in the gemba (seiri) and then arranging all the necessary items in the gemba in an orderly manner (seiton). Then a clean environment must be sustained so that we can readily identify abnormalities (seiso), and these three steps must be maintained on a continuous basis (shitsuke).

The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.

Kaizen is everyday improvement, everybody improvement, everywhere improvement.

escribió sobre el autoconocimiento y sugirió que a veces somos el peor obstáculo para nuestra propia mejora: vemos a dónde deberíamos ir, que es donde queremos ir, pero aun así no somos capaces de tomar la decisión y emprender el camino. Está

For the Stoics, what distinguishes our species is the ability to reason and our high degree of sociality, from which it follows that we should spend our existence intent in using our mind to improve social living.

As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.