Quotes About Improvement

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Honestly, it takes a lot of dedication and sacrifice. When I was trying to get better a couple years ago, I was not going out. I had a couple of people get mad at me. I wasn't going out and partying, I was just doing what I had to do to get better.

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You've just got to keep on grinding.

I'm just trying to find ways to continue to pass and continuing to be consistent in every aspect of my game.

Sometimes I can help the team to score, to make the last pass or to get more chances and try to score. Maybe I can do this more often.

Sometimes my passes don't find people, but I do try and create.

Obviously I'm not happy when I miss the passes so I look to get that right. I work very hard on that.

Growing up, my father was never interested in how many goals I scored, how many passes I made, but only in how many mistakes I made, and how I could be more efficient.

I do a lot of kicking practice and passing, and it has made a massive difference.

Passing the basketball - I feel like I've gotten better with that.

I try every day to become a better player - passing more to open the game - I try everything because you can always be better.

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A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.

School should be about improving a kid's life, about encouraging him to think new thoughts, about giving him new abilities, or about coming up with new ambitions." - Roger Schank.

Train your brain to gain.

So much has happened since the first publication of The Six Sigma Way, and it has been rewarding to find that much of what was in the book then still holds true. At the same time, the opportunity to reflect on how organizations have used, or misused, Six Sigma had offered a lot of new insights. We're pleased that this updated book will offer some real benefit to individuals and organizations still focused on driving continuous improvement today.

The really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven't seen very good programmers who don't spend a lot of time programming. If I don't program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly. - Joe Armstrong

Seibel: Have you heard of refactoring? Cosell: No, what is that? Seibel: What you just described. I think now there's perhaps a bit more acceptance, even among the project managers of this idea.

The problem with this approach was that product developers focused mostly on incrementally improving existing products, rather than coming up with new, potentially breakthrough, ideas.

Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable.

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