Improving Quotes - Page 22

• To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

  Teresa Amabile

  Ideas, Opening Up, Creative

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• There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Soul, Sides

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

  Derek Sivers

  Inventing, Promoting

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin

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• She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She's still working on leadership and that's improving.

  Elaine Jones

  Games, Sportsmanship, Different

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• The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny.

  Rod Stryker

  Destiny, Masters, Your Destiny

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• By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Accepting, Abandon

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• We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Play, Cities, People

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• Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• The world is hungry for the discoveries that young, leading-edge brain researchers are making in Ontario today. This collaboration will help them bring their best ideas to market, improving the quality of life for Ontarians while creating good jobs and promoting economic growth.

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Ideas, Creating

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• Pro-life includes improving life after birth.

  Mike Huckabee

  Pro Life, Birth

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• If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.

  Dan Heisman

  Thinking, Games, Ignorant

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• Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving Up, Generosity, Understanding

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.286

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• Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Commitment, World

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• The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Media, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.324, Cambridge University Press

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• And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion.

  Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

  Moving, Keys, Goal

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Frustration, Skills

  David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Style, Intense

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

  Alan Watts

  May, Forget, Our Lives

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• One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.

  Bill Gates

  Eye, Exercise, Technology

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• I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.

  Paul Polman

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  "Unilever's Paul Polman: challenging the corporate status quo" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.

  Shawn Achor

  Jobs, Teaching, Opportunity

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.11, Random House

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• Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

  Paul Wellstone

  People, Left

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• Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

  Carolina Kluft

  Next, Performances

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

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• The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

  Quentin Bryce

  Powerful, Communication, Opportunity

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 19, 2010.

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• Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

  John Stuart Mill

  Kings, Men, Progress

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.499, Oxford University Press, USA

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