Improvement Quotes - Page 29

• All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

  Michael Arndt

  Self Improvement, World, Creator

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• Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.

  Michael Arndt

  Commitment, Thinking, Special

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• Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

  Michael Arndt

  Opportunity, Mind, Self Improvement

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• Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

  Michael Arndt

  Perception, Self Improvement, Process

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• If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

  Michael Arndt

  Self Improvement, Way, Knows

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• Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

  Michael Arndt

  Self Improvement, Lines, Action

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• The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

  Michael Arndt

  Emotional, Self Improvement, Fluidity

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• We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

  Michael Arndt

  Empowering, Self Improvement, Realization

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• Who you think you are is only a thought.

  Michael Arndt

  Thinking, Self Improvement

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• As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Running, Team, Simple

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• Vanity prevents improvement

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Vanity, Insightful, Selling

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• And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.

  Jason Reitman

  Thank You, Air, Smoking

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• I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

  Frontinus

  War, Ideas, New Work

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• To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.

  Henry Kravis

  Real, Done, Buying

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• We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

  James Packer

  Business, People, Challenges

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• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  Will Durant

  Real, Character, Individuality

  "The Lessons of History". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1968.

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• Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Criticize

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• It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Opportunity, Variation, World

  Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett, Peter Gautrey (1989). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 15: On the Origin of Species, 1859”, p.62, NYU Press

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• Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it. Just as correct principles, when applied, carry their own witness that they are true, so do correct personal improvement programs. But we must not expect personal improvement without pain or some 'remodeling.' We can't expect to have the thrills of revealed religion without the theology. We cannot expect to have the soul stretching without Christian service.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Christian, Pain, Thinking

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• The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Way, Building

  "Facebook IPO Filing Reveals Its Stunning Size: A Private Jet, $1 Billion In Profits, And More" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Self, America, Kind

  Dinesh D'Souza (2012). “What's So Great About America”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• The secret art of inviting blessings.  The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.

  Mikao Usui

  Spiritual, Morning, Art

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• It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

  Colson Whitehead

  Failure, Perfect, Incentives

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor

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• No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Yield

  "To Help a Loved One in Need" by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. May 1988.

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• Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

  Sebastian Coe

  Athlete, Next Week, Years

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