Improvement Quotes - Page 33

• The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they dont get it.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Spiritual, Book

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• God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

  Chuck Smith

  Self, Helping, Honest

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• The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

  Agathon

  Heart, Understanding, Mind

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• The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

  Richard Fortey

  Intelligent, Class, Museums

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• It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Self, Done, Records

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• There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

  Fred Brooks

  Technology, Order, Simplicity

  ""The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition"". Book by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., August 2, 1995.

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• I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Book, Self, May

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• President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. . .' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54).

  H. Burke Peterson

  Mother, Children, Lakes

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  Frances Wright

  Women, House, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can
  know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for
  mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do
  that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in
  a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices,
  you cannot gain its value.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Order, Practice

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

  Terry Eagleton

  Self, Superstitions, Limitless

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• The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

  John Redwood

  Self, Library, Pursuit

  "Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

  Park Geun-hye

  Past, People, Growth

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Men, Compassion

  "Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales".

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• Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, School, Matter

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• Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Land, Community

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• The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Events, Libertarian

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

  P. T. Barnum

  Home, Men, Brain

  P. T. Barnum (2007). “The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money”, p.32, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. . . . We believe that charity must begin at home. Can we hope to be charitable to the stranger if love does not abound in the family? A sure step in the direction of improvement and progress in our own lives comes when we share with mother or father in their dependence as they shared with us in their productive years.... We cannot as children ignore our obligations to our parents by passing responsibility for their care to others. . . .

  Henry D. Moyle

  Life, Christian, Mother

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• Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Running, Philosophy, War

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• EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Sight, Editors

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• ... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.

  Donald Knuth

  Writing, Design, Important

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• If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

  Heber J. Grant

  Motivation, Achievement, Trying

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