Improvement Quotes

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.

The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing.

Fiction is an improvement on life

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.

Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.

If I could uncover what beliefs and values control me, I can literally redesign me.

You get what you tolerate.

Every day, work harder on yourself than anything else. ‘Cause if you become more intelligent, more valuable, more skilled, you can add more value to other people.

Your biggest problem is you think you shouldn’t have them. ‘Cause problems are what make us grow. Problems are what sculpt our soul. Problems are what make us become more.

Heal the boy and the man will appear.

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.