It is my job to help the players react 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.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

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

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

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

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

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

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.

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.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

If 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?

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

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

I 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.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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

Nothing recedes like progress.

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.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

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.

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.

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.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

While 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.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

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

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

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.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

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.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

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.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

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.

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.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle – the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.