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.‘
Bill GatesAnytime 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.
Joyce MeyerTo be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.
Stephen CurryProselytism 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.
Pope FrancisI think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.
Steve JobsPeople 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.
Mark ZuckerbergWe 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.
Barack ObamaIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch SpinozaInnovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.
Bill GatesIf we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis BaconWhenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt DisneyProgress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard ShawThe more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.
Jocko WillinkTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph AddisonI’m bad at picking heroes.
Margaret AtwoodWere there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence NightingaleI 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.
Lando NorrisThe status quo sucks.
George CarlinWe can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘
Abraham LincolnOur inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David ThoreauGod created man, but I could do better.
Erma BombeckNothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CummingsDon’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.
Vivienne WestwoodUnless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Dr. SeussIf 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.
Kendrick LamarIn 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.
Lando NorrisCommon Core is a big win for education.
Bill GatesWriting 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.
Wayne DyerIf 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?
Bill GatesI 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.
Benjamin FranklinCoaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou HoltzHuman development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
Brian EnoThe 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.
Robert FrostWe 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.
Richard P. FeynmanIn 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.
Narendra ModiI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. MenckenThe time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. KennedyOn 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.
Stephen CurryOnion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma BombeckA ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret AtwoodThings alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis BaconWe all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
Bill GatesI 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.
Edmund BurkeCommunication 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.
Brian TracyA cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen CoveyThe 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.
Kevin HartThe best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin DisraeliVolleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
LeBron JamesI look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.
Dolly PartonMen are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George OrwellIt’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.
Barack ObamaWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin FranklinProgress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Khalil GibranPolitical chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George OrwellIt is my job to help the players react better.
Jurgen KloppA disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund BurkeDancers 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.
Abby Lee MillerBenefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo MachiavelliI wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Maya AngelouHow 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?
Alexander the Great