Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

In 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is my job to help the players react better.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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

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.

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

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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?

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

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

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.

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

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Common Core is a big win for education.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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