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

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbor. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Work, Eye, Giving

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• The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Positive, Mean, Important

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• Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Self, Imperfection

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience.

  Michelle Kwan

  Athlete, Challenges, Looks

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• To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question of Man & his relation to the brutes, of instinct, intelligence & reason, of Creation, transmutation & progressive improvement or development. Each set of geological questions & of ethnological & zool. & botan. are parts of the great problem which is always assuming a new aspect.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Past, Men

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• Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Men, Russia

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.36, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Hard Work, Independent

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

  John Stuart Mill

  Happiness, Art, Mean

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.3190, e-artnow

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• When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

  Brian Wesbury

  Creativity, People, Community

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• All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.

  Jerry Lynch

  Athlete, Loss, Skills

  Jerry Lynch (2001). “Creative Coaching”, p.192, Human Kinetics

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• The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Men, Organization

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  The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Player

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• I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Feet

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• Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

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• A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

  Andy Grove

  Technology, Fundamentals, Done

  "The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business". Book by Ciarán Parke, p. 70, 2006.

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• Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Differences, Focus

  "More glass from Google: CEO Larry Page gets transparent" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Advantage, Evolve

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• Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Journey, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 02, 2016

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• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Educational, Ignorance, Race

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1947). “Annual”

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• Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Justice, Diversity, Progress

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Real, Educational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Humility, Self, Distinction

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• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Stupid

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