Improvement Quotes - Page 18

• It is a very interesting world. I'm excited. It is much more optimistic than people think, and there is going to be huge job creation from all these things, and there are going to be huge life improvements.

  Ken Moelis

  Jobs, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages. Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Law, Immigration

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think anybody currently running for the presidency on the Republican side by default would be a huge improvement over Obama in every area, including foreign policy and the use of the military.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician.

  Amartya Sen

  Names, Doe, Algorithms

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.

  Shakira

  School, Medicine, Achievement

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.

  Thomas Pogge

  Loss, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Impact, Marketing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Europe, America, Perspective

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we think of as a 'lean-forward' type of entertainment. It's much more intense. But TV is more of a 'lean-back' entertainment - so the big improvement there is on-demand, because it conforms to your schedule.

  Reed Hastings

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've always felt like the most improvement you can make is from year 1 to year 2, much like a college freshman who the most improvement he can make in an entire one year of college football is going from year 1 freshman year to his sophomore year. Like a pro football player going from his rookie season to his second season. There's a window there that will never come again that you have a chance to making your biggest strides.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Player, College

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.

  Vik Muniz

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new things that aren't much regulated yet and outracing bad policy. I look at so many policy areas - regulation, regulatory reform, health care reform - it's all failing, we're not making improvements, we're going backwards.

  Tyler Cowen

  Optimistic, Thinking, Progress

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The right U.S. tax policy could positively impact decisions to develop or redevelop new retail and restaurant destinations that make a community great. Policy improvements can grow the economy in communities across the country, spurring investment and new development.

  Thomas M. McGee

  Country, Community, Decision

  Source: wwd.com

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• Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that they don't vary, and people don't select.

  Joe Quirk

  Technology, People, Evolution

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution - that surprised me. And it improved the conditions for foreign journalists: It used to be impossible for you to meet with me personally. But there still hasn't been a real improvement in the human rights situation.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Real, Nice, Writing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

  Michael Koryta

  Stress, Thinking, Healthy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine technology improvements per se do not necessarily reduce our impacts because we immediately double down on how much we use.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Technology, Energy, Paradox

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need a federal government commission to study the way our financial services system is working - I believe it is working badly - and we also need more educated investors. There are good long term low-priced mutual funds - my favorite is a total stock market index fund - and bad short term highly priced mutual funds. If investors would get themselves educated, and invest in the former - taking their money out of the latter - we would see some automatic improvements in the system, and see them fairly quickly.

  John C. Bogle

  Believe, Long, Study

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Alison Gopnik

  Radio, Telegraph, Effects

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• I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

  Al Gore

  Country, Educational, Moving

  "Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'". www.cnn.com. March 9, 1999.

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Simple, Autism, Stuff

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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  Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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  A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

  Sam Houston

  Leadership, People, Helping

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