Improvement Quotes - Page 32

• Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Harness, Resources

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• Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

  Adolf Loos

  Lying, Years, Stronger

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• Survival is optional.  No one has to change.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Survival, Optional

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• A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Working Together, Trying, Accomplish

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

  Shigeo Shingo

  People, Looks, Busy

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• The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Systems And Processes, Kaizen, Waste

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• There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Order, Goal, Priorities

  Shigeo Shingo (1988). “Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement”, p.94, CRC Press

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• Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Mean, Quality, Progress

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• There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Space, Long, Matter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.

  Albert J. Nock

  Agency, Government, Years

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• If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.

  Catharine Beecher

  Mind, Faces, Female

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1829). “Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request”, p.16

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• Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I’ve never seen a player in such good physical condition. He’s a gladiator.

  Jorge Valdano

  Player, Self, Waiting

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• We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn’t understand and therefore, we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action, try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake or another thing you didn’t like so you can redo it once again. So by constant improvement, or, should I say, the improvement based upon action, one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge.

  Fujio Cho

  Mistake, Practice, Trying

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• The physicians belief in the treatment and the patients faith in the physician exert a mutually reinforcing effect; the result is a powerful remedy
  that is almost guaranteed to produce an
  improvement and sometimes a cure

  Petr Skrabanek

  Powerful, Physicians, Patient

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• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

  Daniel Yergin

  Electric Power, Impact, Focus

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• Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I have learned and improved as an overall lacrosse player. Learning to adapt in tight space while reading defenders and offensive players has been the biggest improvement in my game.

  Paul Rabil

  Reading, Player, Games

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• In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Opportunity, Self, Freedom Of Speech

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• The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

  Robin Skynner

  People, Possibility, Willing

  John Cleese, Robin Skynner (2011). “Life And How To Survive It”, p.61, Random House

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• For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Men, Light

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• I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

  James Van Fleet

  Long, Progress, Sake

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.37, Penguin

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• But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

  Christopher Cockerell

  Silly, Progress, Age

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• We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Light, Bridges

  Max Frisch (2006). “Homo Faber”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

  Frances E. Willard

  Children, Past, Imperfection

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana

  Infancy Is, Progress, Savages

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Break Through, Hopeful

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