Improvement Quotes - Page 19

• I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

  Steve Jobs

  Done, Revolutionary, Stressful

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• 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.

  Tony Judt

  Perfect, Answers, Should

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.109, Penguin

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• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

  Lionel Messi

  Believe, Desire, Rooms

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• The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

  Henry Miller

  Evil, Progress, Different

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Johann Most

  Want, Transformation, Anarchist

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• Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Design, Mind

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• There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Two, Three

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• You only grow when you are alone.

  Paul Newman

  Wisdom, Being Alone, Solitude

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• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Mean, Opportunity

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Pere, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Discovery, Doubt

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.300, Lulu.com

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  It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 08, 2016

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• If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 28, 2016

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• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 24, 2015

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• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Powerful, Past

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivation

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• There's always a way - if you're committed.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Determination

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 13, 2016

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• There's no abiding success without commitment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Change, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Games, Transition

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mistake, Self Improvement, Youth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories, Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy”, p.172

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