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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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

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

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

Practice only makes for improvement.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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

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.

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

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

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.

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

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

[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.

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

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

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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.

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

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.

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

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

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.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

Talent comes from experience and failure

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.