Quotes About Improvement

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. —LUDWIG VON MISES

And we're going to be here for fifty years, so whatever is not right, we'll get right.

What's important is growth and spirituality. Well, that's broad, you may say. It's really not. Growth is constant and never-ending improvement in life. If you don't think, you don't grow. If you don't take action, you don't grow. If you don't expand your mind, you won't get to the next level.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

The witch theory of causality, and how it was debunked through science, encapsulates the larger trend in the improvement of humanity through the centuries by the gradual replacement of religious supernaturalism with scientific naturalism.

Man is, in short, 'perfectible'—meaning continually improvable rather than capable of actually reaching absolute perfection.

By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, astronomy replaced astrology, chemistry succeeded alchemy, probability theory displaced luck and fortune, insurance attenuated anxiety, banks replaced mattresses as the repository of people's savings, city planning reduced the risks from fires, social hygiene and the germ theory dislodged disease, and the vagaries of life became considerably less vague.

Las oportunidades para mejorar las condiciones de vida siguen ahí. Solo tenemos que identificarlas y mostrar la voluntad colectiva de actuar.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.

Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else is merely the need to improve reality for them.

Incluso podríamos poner en tela de juicio el progreso científico y tecnológico, por ejemplo, tener la impresión de que la mejora de las técnicas médicas se paga con un aumento del control social y una disminución global de la alegría de vivir.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

Intentamos demostrar que estamos equivocados tan rápidamente como sea posible, porque solo de esta manera podemos encontrar el progreso.

He said I might be able to fix things that are broken." I glanced around the room. "Did he mean this furniture?

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

When we reached the office I started writing urgently. For the first time since I had been compiling profiles I also wrote in the first person singular. I described his general modus operandi as if he was telling it himself. Then I tackled each crime scene separately and, still writing in the first person singular, I described the subtle changes that crept in, how his fantasy developed, the mistakes he made, how he tried to correct them and how he improved.

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

Don't be yourself — be someone a little nicer.

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we not try to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

But no social change can come about until the consciousness of individuals is changed first. When a young man asked Carlyle how he should go about reforming the world, Carlyle answered, "Reform yourself. That way there will be one less rascal in the world." The advice is still valid. Those who try to make life better for everyone without having learned to control their own lives first usually end up making things worse all around.

There was a time when it was admirable to be an amateur poet or a dilettante scientist, because it meant that the quality of life could be improved by engaging in such activities. But increasingly the emphasis has been to value behavior over subjective states; what is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance rather than the quality of experience.