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

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

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.

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

Computers make me totally blank out.

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

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

The status quo sucks.

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

Common Core is a big win for education.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

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

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

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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.

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

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.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it’s clowns and kid’s toys and bright colors and things like that.

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

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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.

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?

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.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

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.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

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.

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

God created man, but I could do better.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

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

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

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.

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

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

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

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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.

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

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

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

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

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.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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.