Improvement Quotes

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
Samuel Adams

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
Larry David

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
George Michael

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
Louis Nizer

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.
James Young

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.
Jayne Mansfield

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
Tryon Edwards

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young

It's just a little dusty valley. There is nothing there. We're going to have to develop the entire site.
Ian Mcewan

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner