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“There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.”

Process Interesting Amount Increase Latter Improving Copying

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.”

Culture Taken Method Wide Agency Take Time Improving Nasa Culture Change

Author:Tom Krause

“New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.”

Order Cost Waste Management Nine Programming Efficiency Improving Margins Eliminating

Author:James Packer

“My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.”

Golf Hitting Improving Spectators

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.”

Desire Faults Improving

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”

Giving Bigs Past Left Forget Mistake Worry Greater Achievement Optimism Presses Noble Criticize Improving Improving Yourself Time Left Optimism In Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.”

Wells Evil Cities Growing Tasks Down And Inevitable Improving City Life

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.”

Dream Goal Your Dreams Mma Improving Dreams And Goals Your Dreams And Goals

Author:Patrick Williams

“The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.”

World Ideas Seems Artist Change Changed Function Aliens Improving

Author:Georg Baselitz

“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.”

Successful Focus Economic Development Skills Areas Strategy Improving Global Economy Workforce Economic Development World Economy

Author:Rod Blagojevich

“This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day. Don't listen to those self proclaimed nutrition gurus and the supplement industry trying to tell you that you need meat, eggs and dairy to get enough protein. There are plenty of plant-based protein sources and your body is going to thank you for stopping feeding it with dead-food. Go vegan and feel the power!”

“Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”

“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”

Thinking Way Two Hands Together Generations Magic Particular Smart Machines Method Someday Artificial Intelligence Improving Being Smart Maybe Someday

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”

Results Keys Activity Opposites Increase Stress Productivity Time Management Improving Output

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.”

Energy Technology Resources Saving Faster Efficiency Improving Cheaper

Author:Amory Lovins

“The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Enough Today Evil Literature Causes Millions Progress Serious Ears Block Revolutionary Subtle Good Enough Sincere Improving Essays Not Good Enough Scepticism

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”

Thinking Has Beens Said Able Action Force Half Behavior Tough Performances Management Unions Managers Improving Jest

Author:Peter Drucker

“The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.”

People Conditions Depends Average Population Improvement Faster Improving Advancing Deteriorating

Author:John Stuart Mill

“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.”

“I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.”

“Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.”

People Outcomes Multiple Improving Farming Positive Outcome

Author:Richard Attias

“And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.”

Trying Stills Class Conversation Method Criminals Foolish Improving Philanthropist

Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.”

Self Done Work Pure Sake Sheer Improving Toil Drudgery

Book:Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

Source: Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

“Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.”

Has Beens Made Ability Effects Movement Lawyer Bombs Concentration Antiwar Troops Improving Precision Taliban Adviser Pentagon Clusters Weaponry

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.”

People Ifs Firsts Believe Stills Space Mankind Investment Improving Caves Outer Space

Author:Anthony Daniels

“Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”

Regard Mere Borders Improving Hopefulness

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.”

Knows Different Enjoy Evolve Improving Different Directions

Author:George Clooney

“My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America.”

Way Wells Long Country Philosophy Whole America Belief Known Promise Approach Constant Improvement Improving Long Way Constant Improvement

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.”

Kids Growth Down And Impact Population Educate Improving Population Growth

Author:Bill Gates

“Health care is, at its core, about improving the odds of life in its struggle against death. Of extending that game which we will all lose, each and every one of us unto eternity, extending it another year or month or second.”

Years Care Games Loses Struggle Months Eternity Core Health Care Odds Improving Extending Another Year

Author:Keith Olbermann

“If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.”

Ifs Self Decision Hair Logical Improving Washing Guessing Second Guessing Second Guessing Yourself

Author:Keith Olbermann

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

Thinking Whole Improving Whole Picture

Author:William Glasser

“People speculated that signing Raja was an insurance policy. That is not the case. We signed Raja Bell because we thought we were greatly improving our team, the makeup of the organization.”

People Cases Team Policy Organization Makeup Bells Improving Signing Insurance Policy

Author:Bryan Colangelo

“Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.”

Long Artist Courses Goal Careers Achieve Periods Skills Frustration Improving Inability Perfectionist

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.”

Ifs Want Self Dies Standards Billions Smarter Improving Precise Modification

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.”

Ifs May Forget Our Lives Improving

Author:Alan Watts

“No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.”

Want Improving Masterpiece Improving Yourself

Book:Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

Source: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

“If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.”

Ifs Writing Littles Book Happens Would Be Artist Becoming One Day Absolutes Pursuit Crafts Comic Weekend Comic Book Exploring Improving Lifelong Narcissist

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.”

“I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.”

Thinking World Age Young Games Winning Sports Average Cups Improving World Cup Squad

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.”

Ifs Knows Looks Matter Eye Fun Quality Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Seeking Buddhist Having Fun What Matters Improving Etiquette Pathways Reassurance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I do not know what to think of it. We are working hard and improving and we just need to execute better.”

Thinking Knows Needs Hard Improving Tigers Lsu

Author:Les Miles

“I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.”

Thinking Years I Can Done Helping Jobs Games Winning Goal Can Do Team Ready Baseball Excited Coaches Worried Ads Offense Improving Tigers Pitcher Facets Great Job Lsu

Author:Alex Bregman

“Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.”

People Helping Film Young Powerful Issues Communication Skills Tools Theater Storytelling Our Time Collaboration Translate Improving

Author:Kevin Spacey

“This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.”

Source: The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure

“Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.”

People Men Children Hands Together Mistake Alive Feet Cold Luck Edges Bones Accidents Meat Freak Improving Hook Vigorous Bad Luck Prospects Enterprising Hands Together

Book:The Annie Dillard reader

Source: The Annie Dillard reader

“Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.”

Giving Looks Littles Might Understanding Pleasure Quality Ready Giving Up Importance Generosity Titles Improving Constraints Cringe Ready To Give Up

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

“Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.”

Men Company Progress Kings Familiar Superiors Improving Superior Man Deteriorating

Book:On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.”

Ifs Thinking World Children Soul Helping Would Be Care Spiritual Interest This World Eternity Appeals Improving Enthusiastic

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers