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I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.

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.

I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.

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.

Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.