Improvement famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
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.
-- Albert Speer -
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
-- Alexander Smith -
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
-- Alison Gopnik -
A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.
-- An Na -
I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.
-- Anne Robinson -
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
-- Augustus De Morgan -
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
-- Benjamin Haydon -
It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
-- Bernard Darwin -
The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you...
-- Bob Teague -
The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.
-- Brendan Brazier -
All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
-- Brian Tracy -
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
-- Brian Wesbury -
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people
-- C. S. Lewis -
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.
-- Carl Flesch -
Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.
-- Cedric Price -
Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.
-- Charlie Munger -
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.
-- Chris Weidman -
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
-- Clay Shirky -
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.
-- Corliss Lamont -
Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
-- David Brainerd -
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
-- Dr. Dre -
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
-- Edmund Waller -
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
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!
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
-- Eric S. Raymond -
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
-- Erno Rubik -
Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult
-- Ferdinand Porsche -
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
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.
-- Frank P. Ramsey -
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.
-- Frederick Sanger -
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
-- Garth Nix -
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
-- Geddy Lee -
If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
-- Geoff Hickson -
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
-- George Perkins Marsh -
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.
-- George Santayana -
I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.
-- Ginny Brown-Waite -
There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.
-- Harvey V. Fineberg -
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
-- Henry Ford -
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.
-- Herbert Schiller -
Human improvement is from within outward.
-- James Anthony Froude -
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
-- James Cash Penney -
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.
-- James Monroe -
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole
-- Jane Jacobs -
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
-- Jared Diamond -
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
-- Johann Most -
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.
-- John Gorrie -
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
-- John Lothrop Motley -
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
-- John Ousterhout -
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
-- John Ousterhout -
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
-- John P. Kotter -
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
-- John Redwood -
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
-- John Stewart Bell -
All improvement happens project by project and in no other way.
-- Joseph M. Juran -
We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
-- Judith McNaught -
Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.
-- Justin Kan -
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
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.
-- Kenneth H. Cooper -
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
-- Kim Collins -
Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.
-- Larry Beinfest -
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.
-- Lawrence Welk -
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.
-- Leland Stanford -
We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they be.
-- Lewis Howard Latimer -
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
-- Lisa Alther -
Continual improvement is an unending journey
-- Lloyd Dobyns -
I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.
-- Ludacris -
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven -
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.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.
-- M. R. DeHaan -
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington -
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.
-- Marisha Pessl -
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
-- Mark Twain -
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.
-- Mark Twain -
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.
-- Mark Zuckerberg -
Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.
-- Martin Feldstein -
There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.
-- Martti Ahtisaari -
Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement
-- Masaaki Imai -
You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.
-- Merlin Mann -
All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.
-- Michael Arndt
