Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

The status quo sucks.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

It is my job to help the players react better.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.