It is my job to help the players react 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.

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

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

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

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.

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

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

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

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

I’m a workin‘ girl.

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

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

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.

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

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.

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

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 status quo sucks.

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 saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

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.

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.

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

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.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

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

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Nothing recedes like progress.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

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

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.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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

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.

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

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?

Common Core is a big win for education.

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.

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

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

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 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.