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To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

Al-Shafi‘i

Wise, Wisdom, Brother

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Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

Jay Conrad Levinson

Change, Business, Perfect

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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

Benjamin Franklin

Jobs, Asking Why, People

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Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

Writing, Heart, Men

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... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

Aristotle

Exercise, Men, People

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Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

Charles Dickens

Men, Evil, Groups

Charles Dickens (2009). “Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

Age, Youth, Middle

Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Henry David Thoreau

Kings, Men, Civilization

Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Learning, People

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Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Dale Carnegie

Trying, Improving Yourself, Profitable

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My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

Golf, Hitting, Spectators

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Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

Mortimer Adler

Work, Self, Toil

Mortimer Jerome Adler (1984). “Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

Ben Hogan

Pleasure, Greatest Pleasures

Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

Marie Curie

Educational, World, Individual

Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Socrates

Life, Crush, Way

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Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

Robin Williams

Jobs, Philosophy, Quality

"Fictional character: Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", 1998.

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Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.

David D. Glass

Thought Provoking, Missing, Provoking

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By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

Benjamin Franklin

Growth, World, Growing

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Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

Rick Bayan

Glasses, Two, Rose

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Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Attitude, Performances

H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

Eric Bana

Track, Acting, Interpretation

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The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

Arthur C. Clarke

Moving, Technology, People

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The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.

Chris Brogan

Inspirational, Media, Differences

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By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Bill Gates

Empowering, Growth, Population

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Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.

George Will

Running, Two, Guy

George F. Will (1999). “Bunts”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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