Best 642 quotes in «improvement quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

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

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 easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

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

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

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

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

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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.