Best 642 quotes in «improvement quotes» category

Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

Practice only makes for improvement.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.