Improvements Quotes

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people;

and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Commit to CANI! -- Constant And Never-ending Improvement

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Practice only makes for improvement.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.

Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Human improvement is from within outward.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language.

.. one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature.

.. is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement -- they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.

The principle is competing against yourself.

It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

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. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Justice, Sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honoured, there is a foundation for social security; general happiness and the improvement and progress of our race. And whoever labours on this edifice with usefulness and distinction, whoever clears its foundations, strenthens its pillars, adores its entablatures or contributes to raise its august dome, still higher in the skies, connects himself in name and fame and character with that which is and must be as durable as the freedom of human society.

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Don't demand perfection. But insist on continuous improvement.

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching-there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it.

If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

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

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.