Top 100 Quotes About Improvement
#1. You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.
Hlovate
#2. Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing ... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
#3. The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources ... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement ... They are the wellsprings of a free society.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#5. How was your afternoon?"
"No one died, so it was a big improvement on my morning.
Will Kostakis
#6. The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
John Ousterhout
#7. To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.
Sri Aurobindo
#8. We can't all be investigating non-coding DNA," I said, feeling an upsurge of gastric acid. "Some of us have to sell bullshit self-improvement courses
Russell Hoban
#9. When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
Charles Caleb Colton
#10. There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks.
Shaun White
#11. Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.
George H. W. Bush
#12. Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?
Alan G. Robinson
#13. I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.
Honore De Balzac
#14. Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.
Robert D. Maurer
#15. The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
#16. Advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great.
Jane Austen
#17. For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the abolition of classes not the improvement of the existing society but the foundation of a new one.
Karl Marx
#18. Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement.
Jeffrey Fry
#19. Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices.
Nancy Pelosi
#20. I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone in my bedroom and on the one in the kitchen. Then I typed out two labels and taped them to the handsets. "It's an opportunity, not an attack," they read.
Alice Sebold
#21. Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.
Alan Watts
#22. They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
John Morley
#23. Too many people would rather fight to the death to defend their bullhead positions. Tyrone was impressed whenever someone changed their mind. It meant acting on reason, and with reason came self-improvement.
Jack Kilborn
#25. Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ...
Frontinus
#26. We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul's inspired desire for improvement.
Rand Olson
#27. I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
E. J. Hughes
#28. Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
Arthur Erickson
#29. The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
African Spir
#30. I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
Patricia Richardson
#31. The defects of the West are innumerable, its crimes and errors very real. But in the end, let's not forget that we are the only ones to have the possibility of improvement and emancipation that lies in free genius.
Albert Camus
#32. Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement
Masaaki Imai
#33. Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.
Harvey V. Fineberg
#34. The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change. There
Ludwig Von Mises
#35. The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke
#36. The testers found that training attention not only improved executive control; scores on nonverbal tests of intelligence also improved and the improvement was maintained for several months.
Daniel Kahneman
#37. The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
George Perkins Marsh
#38. Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
#39. Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#40. Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.
Shunryu Suzuki
#41. It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#43. I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
Andrew Weil
#44. Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction ...
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
Naomi Wolf
#46. Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
Frederick Sanger
#47. Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say ... 'It would have been better if ... ' or 'had it been ... ' and this is all about evolving.
Abhishek Bachchan
#48. Even perfection has room for improvement.
Ty Warner
#49. Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting.
Paul J. Meyer
#50. Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.
Russell M. Nelson
#51. Striving for perfection is neurotic; striving for excellence is progress. Excellence is continuous improvement. There is nothing that cannot be done better or improved the next time.
Shiv Khera
#52. What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
William Hurt
#53. Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Otto Weininger
#54. Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.
Dale Carnegie
#55. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
Chuck Palahniuk
#56. Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you'll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.
Shigeo Shingo
#57. Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.
Joe Murray
#58. I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
Seneca.
#59. Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia;
Jane Austen
#60. Will there not be any scandal if she marries *me*? I asked
not quite believing that living in pseudo-wedlock with a half-human foreign transvestite was any improvement over spinsterhood.
Marie Brennan
#61. The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#63. I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.
Charlie Munger
#64. True Christianity is not a program of self-improvement; it's an acknowledgment that something more than self-improvement is needed.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#66. Repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.
Daniel Coyle
#67. I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me.
Noel DeJesus
#68. If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
Clarence Darrow
#69. Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don't have time to criticize others.
Jim Rohn
#70. Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
Dale Carnegie
#71. The startup's goal is to find a profitable customer acquisition strategy by spending small amounts of money in a lot of them, measuring results, and then narrowing down the best channels, while performing PDCA for continuous improvement.
Francisco S. Homem De Mello
#72. The twins are talented, quality people who have shown continuous improvement in all aspects of their game since joining the Canucks.
Dave Nonis
#73. Differences:
Scrum:
- Timeboxed iterations prescribed.
Kanban:
- Timeboxed iterations optional. Can have separate cadences for planning, release, and process improvement. Can be event - driven instead of timeboxed.
Henrik Kniberg
#74. The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.
Peggy Noonan
#75. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#76. Hope is the belief that everything will get better, even when you don't see any indication of improvement.
Courtney Brooks
#77. Success depends on our choice of deployment (in terms of both quantity and/ or Quality) of the 86400 spells (Hindi- Pal) available each day for reflection, correction, and improvement,towards the journey for perfection.
Priyavrat Thareja
#78. We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.
Henry David Thoreau
#79. It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
Michael Crichton
#80. Everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.
Julian Huxley
#81. Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.
Will Wright
#82. The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
Albert Bandura
#83. Just as there is no technical improvement that would not hurt someone, so there is no change in public taste or morals, even for the better, that would not hurt someone.
Henry Hazlitt
#84. Repentance is a lifetime self-improvement.
Toba Beta
#85. Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
Pat Summitt
#86. There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Fred Brooks
#87. Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
Dale Carnegie
#88. The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.
Paul Theroux
#89. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#90. Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people
C.S. Lewis
#91. If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.
Temple Grandin
#92. We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
Park Geun-hye
#93. No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.
Richard G. Scott
#94. Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
Norman Vincent Peale
#95. I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.
Travis Hafner
#96. And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.
Sharon Kay Penman
#97. We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."
Bill Gates
#98. No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#99. I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.
Tom Daley
#100. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time.
Daniel Coyle
