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“Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.”
“Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in character, you have to react and respond as the character you're trying to play. You have to service the story, and I think improv training has helped with my listening, responding, and my audition technique. It's sounds so silly, but it's true. Because not only do you improvise during the audition, but once you get the part, they'll say, "Throw away everything. Just improv this scene. Do whatever you want." Someone could panic if they're not used to doing something like that.”
“Improv is mostly what I've studied.”
“Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something.”
“Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Like, say, you're walking down a hall and you just don't have enough dialogue, and you throw in something. But you don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed.”
“Improv is so different, it's such a collaborative thing, you're working with other people, nothing is planned and it's kind of this community mentality, whereas stand-up, you're alone and it was really hard.”
“Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.”
“Improv is... gods creating worlds.”
“Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.”
“Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.”
“Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.”
“Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.”
Source: The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
“Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.”
“Improve on existing products”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Improve on upon your limit of thinking; it is the best step to repair what has been destroyed by limited thinking. Think big, think wide, and above all think positively!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Improve on your potentials”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.”
“Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them”
“Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short statement. 4. Give me meat in the middle. All meat. 5. Make me smile, think, or act at the end.”
“Improve your being, and the understanding of life will come to you; and then with the understanding, do, be or achieve whatever you want out of your life.”
“Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.”
“Improve your language and opt for positive words. Negative words can sway you from being great. Be courageous enough to speak positive words that are filled with grace.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Improve your performance by improving your attitude.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.”
“Improve your thinking skills, the better you think, the more honourable you will become, and the more honourable you are, the more you will see how despicable it is to obey others! The less you think, the more animal you will become, the more you think, the more human you will become!”
“Improve your world to improve your poetry, for poetry is the last window of your world from where you look at future.
POETRY IS THE LAST WINDOW OF YOUR WORLD FROM WHERE YOU LOOK AT FUTURE OR PAST.
IMPROVE YOUR WORLD TO IMPROVE YOUR POETRY.
SOME PEOPLE USE IT TO LOOK AT THEIR PAST. OF COURSE THROUGH THE BACKYARD WINDOW”
“Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.”
“Improve yourself daily, look at the good at everything.”
“Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality.”
“Improve yourself. You can become what you admire most in life. By admiring the quality of excellence in other people, and practicing that same quality, you too can become exceptional.”
“Improve yourself. You can become what you admire most in life. By admiring the quality of excellence in other people, and practicing that same quality, you too can become exceptional. Get going now and push yourself to create the reality.”
“Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.”
“Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.”
“Improved health did not come from a corporate health care system, it came from my girlfriend putting me on a gluten free diet.”
“Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.”
“Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.”
“Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.”
“Improvement at anything is based on a thousand of tiny failures, ...and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something. If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it’s likely because he hasn’t been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“Improvement comes through daily investments of time, in which we aspire to pursue new experiences, consume new ideas, and challenge ourselves to expand our understanding of the world around us.”
“Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.”
Source: The People
“Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.”
“Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.”
“Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Improvement is nature.”
Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift
“Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.”
“Improvement is not enough, you also needs innovation.”
“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“Improvement of education at a basic level is a global challenge and all children, including those from low income households deserve great quality education”
Source: Nothing But The Truth...