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.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don’t work on it – at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

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

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

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

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.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

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.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

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.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

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

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

It is my job to help the players react better.

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

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

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.

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.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

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.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

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

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

Don’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.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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

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.

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

A chorus is not easy.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.