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“In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.”

May Life Is Realizing Conditions Ought Mass Improvement Accomplished Unrest

Book:Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890

Source: Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890

“We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.”

Shows Moral Higher Ideals Improvement Spurs Deficiency Bigger And Better Things

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power-in the improvement of the world.”

Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

“I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.”

Winning Commitment Excellence Improvement Obsessive Will To Win Commitment To Excellence

Author:Sumner Redstone

“An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.”

Life Individual Force Existence Comfort Protect Safety Average Improvement Devices Endeavor Peril Qualified Convenience Inventor Harness Resourceful Observant

Book:My Inventions

Source: My Inventions

“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.”

Men Mean Causes Air Sea Economic Waste Gains Importance Improvement Burning Desert Fuel Mastery Wire Mining Transmission Surpassing

Book:The Wireless Tesla

Source: The Wireless Tesla

“You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.”

Knows Way Littles Stills Reason Problem Order Easy Limits Solutions Performances Regard Incredibles Improvement Simplest Simplify Implementation

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.”

Taste Improvement Sugar Cream Raspberries

Author:E. W. Howe

“The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.”

“We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.”

People Years Doe Home Today Lasts Asks Left Company Building Materials Amount Percent Billions Improvement Awful Last Year Runway Home Improvement Building Materials

Author:Arthur Blank

“Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.”

People Thinking Self Acceptance Self Improvement Strive Improvement Approval Earning Perfectionism Be Your Best

Author:Brené Brown

“Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.”

Used Team Activity Improvement Used To Be Spain Individualistic

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.”

Fall Social Class Health Rate Improvement Inequality Mortality Decline Social Inequality

Author:Michael Marmot

“. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.”

Men Should Mind Stills Hands Nature Emotion Regret Scene Solitude Eternal Casts Creator Improvement Contemplation Touched Wilderness Association Passing Away Cultivation Sublimity

Author:Thomas Cole

“How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.”

Mean Littles Government Strong Progress Abuse Constitution Improvement Tendencies Disorder

Author:John C. Calhoun

“The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.”

People Self Country Law Political Democracy Conditions Development Self Improvement China Improvement Pursue Socialist Rule Of Law Political Systems Advancing Restructuring Socialist Countries

Author:Hu Jintao

“I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.”

Made Mother Father Names Understanding Memories My Own Brother Improvement My Brother Proficiency Great Memories

Book:The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Antiquities of the Jews. With the life of Josephus

Source: The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Antiquities of the Jews. With the life of Josephus

“From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.”

Reading Steps Sight Notes Response Terror Improvement Session Rabbits Disturbance Positive Response

Author:Mary Cover Jones

“Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.”

“Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.”

Improvement Scales Managers Large Scale Incremental Change

Author:John P. Kotter

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