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.

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

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

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.‘

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

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

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.

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.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

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 think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

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.

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

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.

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.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

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.

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

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

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

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.

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.

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 I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

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

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.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

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.

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

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

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

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

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

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

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.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

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

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

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