64 Improvement Quotes

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board - and a wrecking bar at the site.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

'No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?'

I don't really know what 'intellectual' means, but if it means you've got a desire to learn, you've got a desire to look for things that haven't been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that 'intellectual' is quite an exclusive word. I think it's just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

I came to the conclusion long ago : that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu : But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

I happen to be a kind of inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?

Commit to 'CAN I!' - Constant And Never-ending Improvement

Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear. And 'tis manifest, that as the rational soul distinguishes us from brutes; so education carries on the distinction, and makes some less brutish than others.

A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it, but a good patriot and a true politician always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

If you are The Game, then quite frankly, you need to go back to the drawing board because your game absolutely sucks!

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. ~ Ch. 11

If you are The Game, then quite frankly, you need to go back to the drawing board because your game absolutely sucks!

Understanding of other nations does not mean a feeling against your own country. That's the whole trouble with Germans. They can see only their own country, the local church steeples only. If only German youth could go abroad, and youth from other countries come to Germany. You always have to have criticism if you wish to become better.

They are real fighters. We can improve our team play. We can do better at home (Premiership), better in Europe and better in the Worthington Cup.

It is important, when your techical equipment is not the best, to believe there will always be a better race; that is a part of my motivation.

For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity of power to cause the causes of effects, than to cause the effects themselves. This idea is analogous to the improving excellence observable in every part of the creation; such as in the progressive increase of the solid or habitable parts of the earth from water; and in the progressive increase of the wisdom and happiness of its inhabitants; and is consonant to the idea of our present situation being a state of probation, which by our exertion we may improve, and are consequently responsible for our actions.

Wir wollen nicht alles anders, aber vieles besser machen.

[O]rdinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word. --Austin, Papers 185.

We count it crucial to make regular soundings to find out how the public perceives the rating program, and to measure the approval and disapproval of what we are doing... The rating system isn't perfect but, in an imperfect world, it seems each year to match the expectations of those whom it is designed to serve - parents of America.

'I can see the problem right away, DON'T SUCK. Cease the sucking immediately. If you decide not to suck, you'll be totally shredding all these major solos and all the chicks will be checking you out and all the guys will be hella jealous of your whammy bar.'

Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.

His puritan, muscular, moor-tramping soul (superbly mirrored in Higgins's hymn to the intellect in Pygmalion) bred in him a loathing of all things, whether poems or gadgets, that were designed to comfort the human condition without actively trying to improve it. (p. 103)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.

Zu unserer Besserung bedurfen wir eines Spiegels.

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

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn't.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

So, take, and use thy work: Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim! My times be in thy hand! Perfect the cup as planned! Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!

It was our fault, and our very great fault - and now we must turn it to use. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in 'systems' cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

'The great thing is that he's always looking to improve. How good can he be? Well, we're talking about a guy who is Hall of Fame caliber.' --Lou Piniella