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• Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/ and have changed. There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will fall into its proper place.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Greatness, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

  David Brin

  Teamwork, Honesty, Law

  David Brin (2012). “Existence”, p.340, Macmillan

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• Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

  Placido Domingo

  Thinking, Careers, Stills

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• People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

  Arianna Huffington

  Helping Others, People, Suffering

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• Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

  Melinda Gates

  World, Philanthropy, Fingertips

  "Why Twitter, Why Now?" by Melinda Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2011.

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• How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, Becoming Better, World

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• David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people as he can. Written in a style and format that will truly engage readers, The End of Illness presents a dramatic, new way of thinking about our own health-a way that could lead to greatly improving the quality of life for millions, starting right now.

  Al Gore

  Men, Thinking, America

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• It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, People, Astonishing

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• I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

  Dannii Minogue

  New Day, Acting, Week

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• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.

  Earl Nightingale

  Attitude, Mirrors, Play

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• High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Winning, Lovely

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.35

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• The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

  Jessica Livingston

  Years, Products, One Thing

  Jessica Livingston (2007). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.354, Apress

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• I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.

  Edwin Moses

  Winning, Order, Skills

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

  Janine Benyus

  Innovation, Eras, Revolution

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, People, Certain

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to
  come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your heart,
  stimulate your mind and give you practical strategies for improving
  your relationship.

  William J Doherty

  Couple, Book, Heart

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• Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

  Bob Parsons

  Goal, Kaizen, Investing

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• I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Agency, People, Giving

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• Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Giving Up, Mad, Not Good Enough

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• India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

  Judit Polgar

  Player, India, Chess

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• It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already there are signs of improvement. From new leadership and initiatives in the digital arena, to improving the GOP ground game (as we just saw with David Jolly's victory in FL-13), to the historic decision to restructure the primary calendar and primary debates, the RNC's steps will help keep the House and to take the Senate in 2014, win the White House in 2016, and build for the future. Looking forward to more progress in the months ahead.

  Karl Rove

  Winning, Opportunity, Years

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• Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Science, Journey

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

  Eli Broad

  Country, School, Commitment

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• Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspire, Improvement, Praise

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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