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Quotes About Improvement

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
~ Oscar Pistorius
We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks.
~ Oswald Chambers
Az elég jó utolsó mondat volna, hogy a mindiget javítom örökkére.
~ Peter Esterhazy
Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef ' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God's omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
~ Park Geun-hye
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
~ Pat Oliphant
I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
~ Pat Paulsen
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
~ Pat Riley
Now this little gem"— Izzy's mother pulled out yet another bottle—"this is one of my favorites, guaranteed to improve your love life or your money back. Does your husband ever have trouble keeping up?" She held up a finger, then curled it limply downward as her eyebrows arched up. The silence from upstairs was suddenly deafening.
~ Patricia Briggs
Some progress is progress. I see change.
~ Unknown
While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the story features come tumbling out, the revision is the end of the joy ride. We pull on the gloves and sort of poke around inside the body. Is that a tumor? Will that limb need amputation? I nearly second-guessed myself into heart failure while learning to self-edit.
~ Unknown
Am I acting like the person I most want to be? If not, what can I do to act like that person? Answer: Improve (make it a little better), appreciate, connect, or protect. Am I being the partner I want to be? If not, what can I do to be that kind of partner? Answer: Improve (make it a little better), appreciate, connect, or protect.
~ Unknown
Complaints indicate problems, which are opportunities for improvement.
~ Unknown
And just like with any kind of skill, it can be learned.
~ Unknown
As quickly as possible, write three associations for that word. Take the last word you came up with, and then as quickly as possible, write three associations for that new word. Repeat three times, and then move to the next set of words. Napkin -> table, spoon, fine dining. Fine dining -> France, Michelin Star, butler. Butler -> Jeeves, white gloves, Michael Jackson. And so on. Practicing
~ Unknown
Each day is a tiny trial in which you have the opportunity to improve yourself,
~ Unknown
And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.
~ Patrick Ness
Learn to take criticism. Your first draft won't be perfect, and it's damaging to the book to think that it is. Every great book you've ever read has been rewritten a dozen times. This is the hardest think to learn (trust me), but very, very important.
~ Patrick Ness
Practice makes the master.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But it isn't a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We all good word do. We make you do word good too!" - Writing Excuses
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But an exceptionally clever student could take a book out-side, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.
~ Patrick Rothfuss