Improving Quotes - Page 7

• If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.

  Luke Grimes

  People, Challenges, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Warrior, Skills

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• Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Journey, Joy

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

  Suresh Raina

  Skills, Levels, Cricket

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• President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

  Juan Williams

  Teacher, School, Winning

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• I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

  William Glasser

  Thinking, Whole, Whole Picture

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• Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.

  William Gurnall

  Jobs, Prayer, Hot

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• While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Gdp, Perfect, Growth

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Learning, Community

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

  Alice Cooper

  Mean, Together, Growing

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Beach, Winning

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• Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Time, Bad Ass, Judging

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• We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

  Dan Lipinski

  Jobs, Order, Needs

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• Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

  Fred Brooks

  Moving, Average, Design

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• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Successful, Skills, Focus

  "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.

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• It's definitely not the typical path. But at the same time, I've been working at this since I was young. I've been swimming and running my entire life, and I've been given so much support the last few years in cycling, that I've been able to improve. And I'm still improving and still absorbing that support to help me get to be the best that I can be.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Running, Swimming, Cycling

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• The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

  Mark Bittman

  Hands, Allies, Meat

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• Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

  Jacques Barzun

  School, Hands, Two

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• If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Education, Children, School

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

  Maya Angelou

  Technology, Men, Ghana

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Testing Yourself, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Humanity, Wish

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

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• I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

  Theresa May

  Cutting, Waste, Efficiency

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

  Roger Moore

  Education, Children, School

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