Improving Quotes - Page 9

• Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowing, Organization, Understanding

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• I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  School, People, Foundation

  "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mom, Home, Use

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• Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

  Gene Kim

  Important, Daily Work

  Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.212, IT Revolution

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• To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Character, Kind, Forget

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• We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, People, Silence

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• Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, Moving, Leader

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• I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss.

  Teddy Sears

  Love Is, Creative, Boss

  "Exclusive Feature: Teddy Sears". Interview with Tommy Hilfiger, daman.co.id. April 5, 2014.

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• With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.

  Jared Bernstein

  Strong, Wages, Way

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• I have always favored Capitalism as the best economic system and Democracy as the best political system. They both have the most potential for improving the lives of people. However, both systems need to be reexamined and refreshed so that, in fact, they do serve the majority of people.

  Philip Kotler

  People, Political, Democracy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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

  George Clooney

  Different, Enjoy, Evolve

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk THE MONUMENTS MEN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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

  William Empson

  Borders, Hopefulness, Regard

  William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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

  Richard Attias

  People, Outcomes, Farming

  "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• 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.

  George Lucas

  Children, Responsibility, Emotional

  "George Lucas' 2010 Philanthropy Pledge". George Lucas' Giving Pledge letter, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 31, 2012.

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• 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.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Writing, Artist

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Average, People, Population

  1848 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Half, Unions

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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

  Amory Lovins

  Technology, Energy, Saving

  "Amory Lovins on energy". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. October 16, 2008.

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• 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.

  Marvin Minsky

  Smart, Thinking, Hands

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• 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.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cutting, Thinking, Doctors

  "Deadly Doctors" by Betsy McCaughey, nypost.com. July 24, 2009.

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• 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!

  Patrik Baboumian

  Strong, Animal, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Patrik Baboumian from Sep 01, 2013

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

  Rod Blagojevich

  Successful, Skills, Focus

  "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.

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• 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.

  Georg Baselitz

  Change, Artist, Ideas

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

  Heston Blumenthal

  Desire, Faults

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

  Clara Zetkin

  Struggle, Class, Political

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