Improvement Quotes
Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized.
Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!
If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.
In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.
A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.
You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.
The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.
Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.
The only way to follow your path is to take the lead.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.
Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.
Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?