It is my job to help the players react better.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

God created man, but I could do better.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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 was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

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.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

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 pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m a workin‘ girl.

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.

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

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

Without deviation progress is not possible.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The future will be better tomorrow.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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

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.

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.

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

One 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.‘

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

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

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.