Top 100 Quotes About Improvements
#1. Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
Dean Kamen
#2. As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. With persistence and never-ending improvements you can be the best.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.
Jerry Costello
#7. A fundamental shift of our perceptions and consciousness are necessary for any great improvements for mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse.
Holly Bodger
#9. The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace ... but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#10. JACK: Yes, but said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.
ALGERNON: It usen't to be, I know - but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.
Oscar Wilde
#11. To teach someone something, appreciate even the slightest improvements and avoid criticism.
Debasish Mridha
#12. One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.
Deanna Raybourn
#13. To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
Peter Singer
#14. Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
Danny Meyer
#15. All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.
Rick Wagoner
#16. Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements and unimportant notions each generation, each year. In 600BC somebody did something that makes your life easier today; in 1217, 1892.
Elizabeth McCracken
#17. President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.
Alan Dershowitz
#18. God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
William Law
#19. Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge
#20. Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.
Robin Sharma
#21. 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
#22. There is always room for improvements! My strength comes from above!
Corey Hill
#23. What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet.
A.J. Darkholme
#24. Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
James Altucher
#25. An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.
Robin Sharma
#26. At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.
Max McKeown
#27. When we are stuck in a rut we are being invited to grow and expand.
Dana Arcuri
#28. She kissed him then, allowing him to relax. "I was able to make improvements to you, wasn't I?" "Those were only tweaks. I was already brilliant." The
Christine D'Abo
#29. I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.
Duncan Keith
#30. My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
Ida Tarbell
#31. One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#32. The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?
Paul Brunton
#33. Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements ... are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.
Alexander Hamilton
#34. As J. S. Mill wrote, No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#35. The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
Ruben Hinojosa
#36. And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
Karl Marlantes
#37. Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
Dan Ariely
#38. I believe the best way to activate genius within the immune system is by ingesting certain superherbs and superfoods, taking probiotics and cultured foods, minimizing toxic food exposure by eating pure organic raw-living foods, and making appropriate healthy lifestyle improvements.
David Wolfe
#39. Utopia's quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England
with improvements
W.S. Gilbert
#40. In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for competitors to do. So they've been able to stay constantly near the edge of improvements in shaving.
Charlie Munger
#41. Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.
Martin Feldstein
#42. As stories are told and retold, they evolve. They come to emphasize individuals, not organizations; to celebrate a flash of insight over stepwise improvements; and to exaggerate obstacles while downplaying institutional support.
Chip Heath
#43. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements.
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. Moreover, without measurements, it is virtually impossible to identify the cause of performance problems and track the effect of improvements.
Anonymous
#45. We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.
Frank P. Ramsey
#46. The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.
Joseph J. Romm
#47. I am in favor of a national bank ... in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
Abraham Lincoln
#48. Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!
And then taking that experience to help others ...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#49. When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.
Georges St-Pierre
#50. I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor - that's common in every new technology revolution. There are imitators who have marginal improvements.
Tim O'Reilly
#51. Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
John Cage
#52. God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#53. Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.
Thomas Paine
#54. He was frigging Dionysus! The man who invented the three-way! He'd had sex every possible way known to man. He'd made improvements to the Kama Sutra. And he was suffering from a major case of wet noodle.
Rosanna Leo
#55. I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community.
Andrew Skurka
#56. The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.
Alexander Hamilton
#57. The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.
Alexander Hamilton
#58. The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.
Tyler Cowen
#59. A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy ... with a simple payback under 16 months.
Amory Lovins
#60. Satisficing is one of the foundations of productive human behavior; it prevails when we don't waste time on decisions that don't matter, or more accurately, when we don't waste time trying to find improvements that are not going to make a significant difference in our happiness or satisfaction.
Daniel J. Levitin
#61. Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
Jonathan Swift
#62. This is why if you corrected only this one problem and did nothing else, you would make major improvements in your mental, emotional, and physical functioning. We will use correct diaphragmatic breathing as the jumping-off place for all the activities that follow. If
Gay Hendricks
#63. There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.
Max Baucus
#64. It seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#65. Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#66. So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.
Jon Stewart
#67. Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.
Charlie Munger
#68. Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
Augustus De Morgan
#69. Doing some late-night home improvements, my man? ( ... ) For what it's worth, I never had any use for that froufrou French shit, either. - Tegan
Lara Adrian
#70. In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
Leland Stanford
#71. The end of economic growth does not necessarily mean we've reached the end of qualitative improvements in human life.
Richard Heinberg
#72. Don't make excuses - make improvements!
Tyra Banks
#73. For the improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#75. There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.
Ingrid Newkirk
#76. Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.
Finley Peter Dunne
#77. If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
S. Jay Olshansky
#78. Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
Yuan T. Lee
#79. Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
Brian Tracy
#80. In a world where routine production is footloose ... competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.
Robert Reich
#81. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Al Gore
#82. I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.
Martin Amis
#83. When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.
Linus Torvalds
#84. One of the best ways to ruin a program is to make massive changes to its structure in the name of improvement. Some programs never recover from such "improvements." The problem is that it's very hard to get the program working the same way it worked before the "improvement.
Robert C. Martin
#85. Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
E.B. White
#86. That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#87. As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.
Jonathon Porritt
#88. Don't polish it forever, put it out there. At some point the changes aren't improvements, they're just changes.
Dan Alatorre
#89. Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
David Ricardo
#90. Make adjustments and improvements to enhance the effectiveness of meetings or surpassing of your target. Learn to define, quantify and be specific about what, how and when you want to succeed in each area of your life.
Archibald Marwizi
#91. We are each a gift, exactly as we are in this moment, with no improvements!
SARK
#92. The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.
Mary McCarthy
#93. Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.
Eric Idle
#94. When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.
Brad Lidge
#95. Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind.
Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope.
Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements.
Jimmy Fallon
#97. Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
Ike Skelton
#98. The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.
Tom Sutton
#100. The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.
Kaoru Ishikawa
