Improvement Quotes - Page 8

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Perfect, Rooms, Perfection

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• Human improvement is from within outward.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Humans

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.378, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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  Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

  Bill Gates

  Motivational, Life Lesson, Needs

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Process, Inspection

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 29, 1982.

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• The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853). “Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter”, p.52

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• I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Live Life, Proud, Rooms

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• If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

  Joe Pass

  Inspirational, Music, Guitar

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• Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

  William Pollard

  Creativity, Opportunity, Innovation

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• Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

  Hugh Blair

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247

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• Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

  George Orwell

  Political Language, Decay, Chaos

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Running, Week, Miles

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• The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

  Erno Rubik

  Cubes, Imitation, Imitation Of Life

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• After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

  Margaret Haddix

  Editors, Agents, Phases

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• The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

  Michael Porter

  Facts, Consistent, Risk Management

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• We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

  Franz Liszt

  Play, Style, Musician

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Life, Motivational, Change

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• Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

  Joseph Murray

  Saving, Kidneys, Patient

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• Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Insightful, Remember

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

  Martin Heinrich

  Real, Gun, Law

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• Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Poor, Constant, Constant Improvement

  Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications

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• The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

  Tony Buzan

  Children, Self, Skills

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