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

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.

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

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

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

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

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.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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

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

God created man, but I could do better.

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

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

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

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.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

The status quo sucks.

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.

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.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

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.

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.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

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 don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

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

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

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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

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

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.

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