Improving Quotes - Page 21

• You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes.

  Andreas Schleicher

  Quality, Getting High, Outcomes

  "U.S. Is Urged to Raise Teachers’ Status" by Sam Dillon, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time.

  Thad Cochran

  Life, Prayer, Lost

  "Rep. Alan Nunnelee dead at 56" by Jeremy Diamond, Alex Jaffe, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2015.

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• It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Keeping Promises, Personality

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.49, Mango Media Inc.

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthy—and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Caring, Support, Healthy

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• You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

  Karl Albrecht

  Cutting, Quality, Cost

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• Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.

  Woodie Flowers

  Competition, Sake, Destroying

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• The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Understanding, Challenges, Intellectual

  "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.

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• The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

  Gore Vidal

  Italian, Paris, Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much for avoiding her indiscretions. “Improving how exactly?” I asked. “In combat, in following the dress code, or in keeping her hands to herself?” “Or in turning off caps-lock?” added Eddie. “You noticed that too?” I asked. “Hard not to,” he said.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Dresses, Dress Code

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.38, Penguin

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• What I do brings me a lot of money and it puts me on TV so people may look at me like a star but to me, if you're good (at what you do) and keep on improving, then that's what makes you a star in your own way.

  Kirko Bangz

  Stars, People, Looks

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• We're not saints, any of us. Maybe somebody is, but I don't know those people. But we all know people who behave very smugly and are very egotistical and put you down as a manner of improving their own place in the world or improving their own place in the world.

  Heidi Julavits

  People, World, Saint

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

  Fred Upton

  Opposites, Obamacare, Quality

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• I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Play, Style

  "Kramnik on health, plans - and computers". Interview with Frederic Friedel, en.chessbase.com. March 13, 2006.

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• The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

  Theodor Herzl

  People, Principles, Movement

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• I admire them [latinos] for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Latin, Opportunity, Long

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• We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

  Colin Blakemore

  Animal, Views, Goal

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• Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Mother, Stars

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.438, Library of America

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• The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

  Charles Sturt

  Mean, Land, Consideration

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58

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• The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

  Criss Jami

  Humble, Secret, Always Learning

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

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• Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Self Confidence, Creative

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• Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

  Michael Porter

  Cutting, Average, Skills

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Pieces, Chess, Way

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• I defend myself by improving myself.

  Sidney Poitier

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