Improvement Quotes - Page 9

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

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

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

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.

The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

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

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

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.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Practice only makes for improvement.

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.

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.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

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!

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