Quotes on Improvement

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.

I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

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

Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.