Quotes About Improvement

Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests

So I started trying to behave as if my defects of character were gone. I considered how I would behave if I were who I wanted to be, and I acted that way to the best of my poor acting ability. I made lots of mistakes along the way, but I began to improve with time. It was hard.

There never was a truly great man, who was not a lover and encourager of learning, as of the highest improvement of the human mind

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

was important, therefore, to overthrow superstition and to bring religion within the domain of reason. First of all the priesthood must be deprived for ever of its influence. Then an improvement of the social condition of mankind must be introduced, since the level of morality depends upon social conditions. Jesus was a social reformer. Through the attainment of "the highest perfection of which Society is capable, universal peace" was "gradually to be brought about.

Look back only for as long as you must, Then go forward into the history you will make. Be good, then better.

Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Ose?ao se gospodarem vremena i preko njega gospodarem znanja, a kako je verovao da znanje otvara vrata svakoj težnji za boljitkom, ose?ao se i gospodarem svoje sudbine.

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Urmson and his colleagues learned that as their technology improved, the humans using it would become less reliable. "We realized that this was going to be much much harder to do than we had thought," said engineer Dave Ferguson. "It just became clear that, look, if we can't rely on the driver to pay attention, or to hand over control to, then basically we just have to solve the whole problem. We need to have this vehicle not need the driver.

While I took great pleasure and satisfaction in seeing what we had done for others, I cannot say that I felt as happy. I always felt I had to be in the vanguard of tomorrow. I'd immediately start to think about ways in which we could improve, and players who were coming to the end of their best days.

Gyo(?) You practice; you reach a new level; and then you practice again.

In the classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel's teacher urged him always to take his next shot unburdened by previous failures to hit the target; as he improved, his teacher urged him not to be influenced by his successes either, to stay in the present moment.

A GOOD PLACE TO begin a garden is to undo whatever appear to be the clear mistakes of previous owners.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

It's aft the most honour may be, but forrard you finds the better men.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Let such teach others who themselves excel,And censure freely who have written well.

But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.