Quotes About Improving

#1. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

David Parnas

#2. Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?

Alexandre Dumas

#3. India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

Judit Polgar

#4. Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

Paul Stamets

#5. Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.

Dave Barry

#6. Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now ... You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?

Esther Hicks

#7. We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

Dan Lipinski

#8. From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for.

David Wolfe

#9. 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.

Virat Kohli

#10. Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.

Amit Ray

#11. Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

Eric Schneiderman

#12. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.

Peter M. Senge

#13. Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology.

David Ulrich

#14. So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

Michael Porter

#15. The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Thomas Jefferson

#16. Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Sidney Sheldon

#17. Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.)

David Rock

#18. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

Dominic Stevenson

#19. By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. We have to change the culture from one in which people simply do their own job in their own function to make their own numbers look good (a vertical focus) to one in which people are focused horizontally on the customer and on improving value streams that deliver value across functions.

Jeffrey K. Liker

#21. Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

Robin Williams

#22. Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

David Ogilvy

#23. I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.

Matthew Stewart

#24. I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

Tony Robbins

#25. Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.

Andrew Pettegree

#26. Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Carolina Kluft

#27. Have you ever noticed how they keep improving your laundry detergent, but they still can't get those blue flakes out? Why do we trust them to get our clothes clean? These guys can't even get the DETERGENT white!

Jerry Seinfeld

#28. The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

Ben Hogan

#29. Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.

Charles Sheeler

#30. When kaizen events are designed with the purpose of only improving processes or driving financial savings but not challenging people to develop their skills, kaizen becomes noninfectious.

Jon Miller

#31. While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

Malcolm Turnbull

#32. Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition.

Leon Chaitow

#33. You become better not by competing with someone else but by improving your awareness.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Why center your focus on making "Liberia" a Christian (nation) State? The focus should be, on, making "Liberia" a progressive state. Not a Christian one. Progressivism in "Liberia" should be the path vital to improving the human condition.

Henry Johnson Jr

#35. Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.

Tim Murphy

#36. Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#37. Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Bill Gates

#38. Focus is scary - until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

Clayton Christensen

#39. Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

Chetan Bhagat

#40. Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

John C. Maxwell

#41. We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

Theodore Roosevelt

#42. Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

John Stuart Mill

#43. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#44. Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

Hal Elrod

#45. We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.

Bernie Sanders

#46. The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

Jay Rockefeller

#47. The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#48. Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Marian Wright Edelman

#49. The culture and heritage should stay intact and be maintained as it provides the individuals with some degree of resiliency. The effects of the trauma is what should be focused on and treated. Improving the quality of life for survivors is the focus of treatment. It is not to erase the past.

Thomas Hodge

#50. The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Charles Sturt

#51. I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

Eli Broad

#52. The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Benjamin Haydon

#53. The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

Eric Topol

#54. If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in
parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

Tom Harkin

#55. You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

Karl Albrecht

#56. Ah, well,' I said resignedly, 'if that's that, that's that, what?' 'So it would appear, sir.' 'Nothing to do but keep the chin up and the upper lip as stiff as can be managed. I think I'll go to bed with an improving book. Have you read The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish by Rex West?

P.G. Wodehouse

#57. The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster.

Tyler Christopher

#58. There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

Leo Tolstoy

#59. Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#60. At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

Suresh Raina

#61. Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Amartya Sen

#62. Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

Chuck Grassley

#63. While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

Henry David Thoreau

#64. War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Scott Nearing

#65. Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Blanche Lincoln

#66. The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.

Alan Cohen

#67. Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

Jack Reed

#68. When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#69. What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

Alan Cooper

#70. In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Carly Fiorina

#71. Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

Tara Strong

#72. My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.

Jiah Khan

#73. Given that self-improving strong AI cannot be recalled, Yudkowsky points out that we need to "get it right the first time," and that its initial design must have "zero nonrecoverable errors."45

Ray Kurzweil

#74. What I do brings me a lot of money and it puts me on TV so people may look at me like a star but to me, if you're good (at what you do) and keep on improving, then that's what makes you a star in your own way.

Kirko Bangz

#75. Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

#76. Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#77. Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.

Phil Crosby

#78. Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

Jayleigh Cape

#79. The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented Improving Academic Achievement Study.

Del Siegle

#80. Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.

Pete Gill

#81. On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

Meriwether Lewis

#82. Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong
these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker

#83. The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.

Rod Stryker

#84. The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.

Edward Snowden

#85. Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

#86. Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

George Eliot

#87. I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

Eve Ensler

#88. I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

Tony Robbins

#89. The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

Walter Scott

#90. Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Gunnar Myrdal

#91. Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.

Ari Fleischer

#92. I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.

George Allen

#93. Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells ... any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.

James E. Webb

#94. We're improving and taking our levels of customer satisfaction higher and higher ... Our customers are happier than they were before.

Ralph De La Vega

#95. A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.

William Krisel

#96. Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#97. Each small accommodation of my physical environment is an admission that things are not improving, that this is not some fleeting horror, that perhaps...But that is the unthinkable thought.

Anna Lyndsey

#98. In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Mitt Romney

#99. Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

James F. Cooper

#100. The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.

Ken Robinson