Improvement Quotes - Page 17

• If there is a big bill to do infrastructure improvements and it is about working people, let`s do that. But let`s absolutely fight with every ounce that we have to protect healthcare and make it even better.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Fighting, People, Bills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Games, Odds

  Source: thequietus.com

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• China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

  Ai Weiwei

  Rights, Different, Development

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Thinking, Rooms

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Powerful, Intelligent

  Source: inters.org

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• There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Needs, Administration

  Source: time.com

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• When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how to improve himself. Negro leaders resent this being said, not because they don't know that it's true, but they're thinking, they're looking at it personally. They think that the implication is directed even at them, and that they, and they duck this responsibility.

  Malcolm X

  Responsibility, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Real, Race

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Real, Taken

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.

  Steve House

  Sports, Athlete, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.

  Barack Obama

  People, Greek, Important

  Source: time.com

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• The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.

  Masaaki Imai

  Jobs, Next Steps, Definitions

  Source: blog.deming.org

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• [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.

  Garry Kasparov

  Years, Europe, Source

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• It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

  Carolyn Hax

  Interesting, Way, Facts

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Admire, Beckett

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• First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: "Thou
  shalt not lie," there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Men, What Matters

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• I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Believe, Inferiority, Victim Mentality

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• I think the development of the venture capital system has been an example of something which is a successful improvement in risk-bearing. It doesn't exactly remove the risks at the beginning, but at least creates greater rewards at a slightly later stage and therefore encourages, say, small companies to engage in technologically risky enterprises.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Successful, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• In The United States, the only real change I know has been Instant Runoff, which is usually applied to municipal elections. I see no real improvement. There's another aspect which comes out of the two-party system, which the primary, a funny kind of two-stage election. And people certainly have complained.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Real, Party, Two

  Source: electology.org

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• Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Cutting, Vaccines

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• How many years did people hate Obamacare? Now there's a poll out there that says Obamacare's never been more popular. Really? Really? Just how stupid do you think we all are? After whatever it is, six years of rising premiums, lost coverage, horrible treatment, no access, now all of a sudden, and there hasn't been any improvement in enrollment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In today's global economy, innovations and improvements to products and services are not only happening more rapidly than ever before in history, they are being communicated instantaneously. So, it's "innovate or die"!

  Bill Capodagli

  Innovation, Today, Economy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.

  Eric Foner

  War, Rivers, Government

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  Plato

  Men, Errors, Views

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.

  Ken Moelis

  Technology, Thinking, Millennials

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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