Incremental Improvements Quotes

#1. If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

Tony Judt

#2. I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

Martin Amis

#3. When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!

Geoff Zanelli

#4. Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

Justin Kan

#5. Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#6. You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.

Mayra Santos-Febres

#7. It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.

Randy Alcorn

#8. it's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra,

John Green

#9. His sharp eyes scanned everything, but they didn't dart. Nothing about him promised sudden movement ...

Cara McKenna

#10. Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

John P. Kotter

#11. We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we'd gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#12. I was surrounded by trust and affection. No one could ask more of life, it is the greatest blessing of all.

Sandor Marai

#13. I am not somebody who just says let's beat up on the bad guys. No. I want to summon the good guys and give people the incentives and opportunities to actually grow this economy, put more people to work, get the middle class really feeling like they're back in business.

Hillary Clinton

#14. A hundred brilliant witticisms died suffocating on the captain's heavy glove. Thus muted, I pumped my codpiece at the duke and tried to force a fart, but my bum tumpet could find no note.

Christopher Moore

#15. Once, while living in New York City in the early 2000s, I was asked to leave a sports bar because the Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, "Derek Jeter is baseball's Hitler!

Mindy Kaling

#16. Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

Guy Clark

#17. Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Paul Robeson

#18. Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; ... drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

Edward Everett

#19. Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

Walter Bagehot

#20. Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

Paulo Coelho