Improvement Quotations

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

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

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

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.

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

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.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

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.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

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.

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.

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

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

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.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

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.

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.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

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

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

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

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

I sold door to door for a couple years. As the years recede from the event, I remember less about it, which is probably good for my mind. It was home improvement in Cerritos California, Buena Park, that area.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

More generally, it looks like the long-awaited trend improvement in Australia's exports could be upon us.

One of the main reasons our defense has played so consistently is our work on and improvement in our tackling. We haven't had the missed tackles that we've had in the past. That's something the defensive coaches emphasized in the spring and have continued to emphasize in practice now. By making sure we stress the fundamentals, and that's one of the things we do each week, that has paid off with how well our defense has tackled compared to previous teams.

I worked him seven-eighths (of a mile) on the 24th and had him shod five or six days ago, and we may have got a nail or two in a little tight. He got a little tender in his feet. For a couple of days I thought maybe he was getting sick because he wasn't himself on the track and he didn't eat up. He's getting better each day, but he's got to do some major improvement for me to run him. But if I do run him, he'll run big.

I wouldn't take the numbers literally, but they're clearly signaling an improvement.

I was really pleased with the turnout. It was a great improvement in numbers over last year. I thought the crowd had an incredible energy.

I was pleased with our performance tonight in a pressure-packed situation. We're looking forward to improving on a couple events next year but overall our performance tonight was a big improvement from last year.

Nine months ago, we set out to save one billion dollars annually by using our own Internet e-Business applications, ... That billion dollar savings translates to a 10 point improvement in our margin.

Nick is getting better as he gets more games under his belt. We continue to see his improvement at both ends of the court in the transition game. He's becoming a bigger part of our team.

I wouldn't be too worried because he has done too many good things and showed so much improvement to be concerned about what happened today with split teams.

I wouldn't be too worried. He's done too many good things and has shown too much improvement to be worried about half a day with split teams.

I wouldn't say that we were on top of our game, which gives us room for improvement and things to work on at practice on Monday. The stakes get tougher. You just put that behind and go after the next one.

Obviously, we're taking away a lot of positives for the season. We've got a national scoring leader, conference player of the year and we're one of the top scoring teams in the nation. I think we're seeing a constant improvement in this team. The way the season ended doesn't diminish what the accomplishments were this year.

One of the better guys I've ever played with... quiet, laid-back, but very communicative. Jack had his own style. There's a lot of improvement that needs to be done. I just think there is some direction needed there.

No one should be fooled into believing that the slight improvement relative to July indicates a change in trend. Any growth came from heavy discounting, which is not sustainable - especially as retailers' margins are already being squeezed by rising labour, property and energy costs. The underlying position is still weak and unlikely to improve unless and until there are further cuts in interest rates.

Next fiscal year we expect continuing strong fee income growth and improvement in the loan-deposit spread as interest rates start to rise.

Now that Dow Automotive has realized significant and sustained improvement in volume and profitability, we are ready to implement the next element of our business chart, which is value growth.

Now the Arctic Snow Goose Venture has reconstituted a working group, asked them to give a progress reports and analyze all the new data that has been collected because there are a lot of ongoing research. We'll look at all the new stuff that is out there, check the population models and make whatever improvement to the information and come back with more recommendations of where we go from here.

Peter Han is my best bowler. But this isn't just about competition. Some of these teens, for one reason or another, have never had the chance to be in athletics. Last year, one of our boys couldn't even walk straight down the approach. His improvement this year is amazing. Another boy from England has built his confidence up tremendously, just because of bowling.

Newer products are landing this month and it will really be the second half before we start to see an emphasis on improvement in home performance.

Right now it's more with player improvement going into the tournament. He's working us on our individual games.

I don't know, but that is what we have five more practices for. Right now, we just know that we have to improve. I think there was a lot of improvement from game 1 to game 2, but we'll have to play a lot better in game 3.

I got upset with them in the first half about running things through. If they do all the little things, well, we have room for improvement and we'll work on that.

I'd like to improve on our record and how far we go in the America East tourney. But I'd also like to see an improvement of skills and create an exciting vibe at Stony Brook. I expect great things this year. We have a young group of ladies with a lot of potential and who are not afraid to try something new.

I don't feel like we have enough depth. Lance has certainly made a lot of improvement. He is a veteran player that's starting to feel more comfortable in the system. He did make a couple of good plays in this game.

If we can get them to come back better than when they left that's great. We are going to aim to win, but if we get substantial improvement in every player, I would be happy and I would say we were successful.

Last year we had quite a few sacks ... I think 66 or so. This year we gave up 31. Quite a bit of an improvement on that side.

We're committed to the improvement of relations with Pakistan and are willing to grasp at every opportunity for doing so.

Lowe's remains one of our favorite names. Despite concern of a softening housing market in 2006, we believe Lowe's solid results are indicative of trends in the broader home improvement industry.

Six points is a lot to jump in one meet to the next. We are back on track to where we want to be. We are ready to see more improvement with each meet.

Medium- and long-term development prospects will depend on the securing of macroeconomic stability and the improvement in the Greek economy's structural competitiveness.

Meet-in and meet-out, we're just looking for improvement over the course of the year. We want them to walk away from each meet having learned something. We hope to get better as we go along and see improvement in all areas of the game.

Matt shed off a few strokes, and it's an improvement from John Ryan's 110 (Thursday). Overall, I was happy.