Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
Pope FrancisVolleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
LeBron JamesSome 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.
Jocko WillinkThe word of man is the most durable of all material.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhen I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham LincolnThe 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.
Kevin HartA man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas CarlyleTherefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
AristotleBad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
Colin PowellIt is my job to help the players react better.
Jurgen KloppIf all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
Bill GatesTo be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.
Stephen CurryA ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret AtwoodOh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles DickensA man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard ShawA clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe 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.
Richard BransonI think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.
Steve JobsA man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. KennedyHuman development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
Brian EnoOne thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘
Bill GatesA round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark TwainOur teachers deserve better feedback.
Bill GatesThe progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
VoltaireProgress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard ShawMan, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John SteinbeckIf I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David ThoreauIn 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.
Lando NorrisSometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve JobsWhat a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William ShakespeareI think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel CastroI am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie ChaplinGod created man, but I could do better.
Erma BombeckThe power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston ChurchillA man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.
Marilyn MonroeYou can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Dr. SeussA woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich NietzscheI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. MenckenIt’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
Bill GatesThe little man is still a man.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel JohnsonIt is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore RooseveltA man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel JohnsonThe youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David ThoreauWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin FranklinPersistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon HillNo man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel JohnsonA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis BaconA man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon BonaparteOne must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
Napoleon BonaparteWood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund BurkeWhile civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David ThoreauA cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen CoveyPoor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da VinciWe 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.
Barack ObamaThe status quo sucks.
George CarlinDon’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.
Vivienne Westwood