Best 642 quotes in «improvement quotes» category

The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

The noblest mind the best contentment has

Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

There is always room for improvements! My strength comes from above!

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine technology improvements per se do not necessarily reduce our impacts because we immediately double down on how much we use.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

The size of your promise defines the size of your life.

The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

We do as we feel not as we think

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

Vanity prevents improvement

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.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting on the zoning board meetings, on the zoning commissions. Those are the people I want participating in business improvement in their own industry. The gentrification processes that often happen in cities so often manifest in street sweeps of sex workers. How do you get sex workers on neighborhood associations, regarded as members of the neighborhood?

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions