I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.”
“Improvement, to be found in all things.”
“Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.”
“Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.”
“Improvements are temporary countermeasures, not permanent solutions.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Improvements are the key to achieve your goals.”
“Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.”
“IMPROVIDENCE
The other lives I might have led
All now might as well be
Dead. Survived by no one.
Barren, without issue of any sort:
This withered bud, failed
In art and love. With no time left
To change my course. But time enough
for infinite remorse.”
Source: The Inertia Variations
“IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.”
“Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.”
Source: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
“Improving efficiency is a key to business evolution. For the business to evolve, the business will need to improve efficiencies, among other things.”
“Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.”
“Improving employee happiness raises sales by 37%, productivity by 31% and accuracy of task completion by 19%.”
Source: Sustainable Happy Profit
“Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.”
“Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.”
“Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.”
“Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.”
“Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world”
“Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Improving the material ecology of all products is one way to improve supply chains.”
“Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government”
“Improving the quality of life is the key to better health.”
“Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.”
“Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.”
“Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.”
“Improving your tone essentially requires you to work on your communication skills.”
Source: I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
“Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.”
“Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.”
“Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.”
Source: Composing a Life
“Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be something other people enjoy."”
“Improvisation has never been my strong point.”
“Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.”
“Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.”
“Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.”
“Improvisation is a compositional method.”
“Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?”
“Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.”
“Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.”
“Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.”
“Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.”
“Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.”
“Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.”
“Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.”
“Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.”
“Improvisation is terribly haphazard.”
“Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.”
“Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.”