Improvement Quotes - Page 31

• My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.

  Tiger Woods

  Mother, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Evil, Groups

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, May, Novelty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.14

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• Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

  William Feather

  Persistence, Hot, Enthusiasm

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• To face tomorrow with the thought of using the methods of yesterday is to envision life at a standstill. To keep ahead, each one of us, no matter what our task, must search for new and better methods-for even that which we now do well must be done better tomorrow.

  James F. Bell, III

  Yesterday, Tasks, Done

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• It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Horse, Cousin, Son

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.28, 谷月社

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• There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?

  Roger Babson

  Thinking, Why Not, Earth

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• Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.

  Ralph C. Smedley

  Suggestions, Waste, Faults

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• In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Views, Succeed, Belief

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• Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

  Alan Greenspan

  Technology, Practice, Information

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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• We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Order, People, Machines

  "To the Rural Poor: An Explanation for the Peasants of What the Social-Democrats Want (1903)". Collected Works, Volume 6, p. 366, www.marxists.org.

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• But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Ignorant, Savages, Stereotype

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• The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes.

  Benjamin Carson

  Class, America, Community

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• It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

  Kent Haruf

  Men, Land, Done

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• A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

  An Na

  Focus, Quality, Amount

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• Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

  Paul Wellstone

  Winning, People, Power Politics

  "Honoring Paul Wellstone's Legacy: Fighting Like Hell for Health Care Reform" by Mike Elk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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• The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Country, Mean, Evil

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• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
  That you have no time to criticise others,
  To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
  And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Optimistic, Giving

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Practice for us went pretty well. It started out slow, but guys did a real nice job on the M&M’s Camry today to get us to where we needed to be. Everybody back at the shop is building some great stuff and TRD (Toyota Racing Development) making some improvements for the Chase here this weekend and whatnot. Having a good time there in practice means a lot, but there’s obviously a lot of things that need to happen in the race this weekend for us and getting off to a good start and being able to carry that into the next 10 weeks.

  Kyle Busch

  Jobs, Real, Nice

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• Continual improvement is an unending journey

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Journey, Unending, Continual Improvement

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• WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Character, Flesh, Lasts

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• I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. This is my democracy. Point to a single act of my public career not in keeping with these principles.

  Sam Houston

  Hands, Land, Careers

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• All improvement happens project by project and in no other way.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Way, Projects, Happens

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• I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

  Tom Daley

  Real, Thinking, Long

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• So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly

  Fred Thompson

  Relationship, Choices, Want

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