Improvement Quotes

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life

Practice makes perfect.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

There is no physical body, no matter what the conditions, that cannot achieve an improved condition. Nothing else in your experience responds as quickly as your own physical body to your patterns of thought.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.

Quality questions create a quality life.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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.

Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

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.

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I believe in "love it, or change it" rather than "love it, or leave it."

To improve is to change.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Good reasons must of force give place to better.

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There is always a better way.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!