Improvement Quotes

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

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

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

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.

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

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

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

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

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.

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

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

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.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.