improvement quotes

Anytime 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.

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

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

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

The 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.

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.

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 think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

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.

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

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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.

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

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

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

The future will be better tomorrow.

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.

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

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

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

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

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

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

God created man, but I could do better.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

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.

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

It is my job to help the players react 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.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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