Improvement Quotes - Page 10

• If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

  Deepak Chopra

  Helping Others, Thinking, Suffering

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  War, Mean, Epidemics

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• The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Country, Mean, Average

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• The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, War, Men

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• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

  Frances Wright

  Ignorance, Race, Evil

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Degrees, Ornaments

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.162

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• It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

  Robert Kennedy

  Forever, Growth, Society

  Robert F. Kennedy (1962). “"We Must Meet Our Duty and Convince the World that We are Just Friends and Brave Enemies". (1. Ed.)”

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• It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

  James Madison

  Education, Country, Class

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• ... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Character, Joy

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• It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Dedication, Self

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.140, Ballantine Books

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• That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.

  Andrew Jackson

  Native American, Desire, Essentials

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• It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Education, Hope, New York

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• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.  The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre.  Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Fun, Choices

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• Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.

  Lucy Hale

  Life, Motivational, Self Improvement

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• The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Moving, Government, One Day At A Time

  "Steven Spielberd & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, Lincoln". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 30, 2018.

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• No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Mean, Progress

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Moving, One Direction

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 31, 2016

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• It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good And Bad, Feels, Know How

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• My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.

  Ida Tarbell

  Self, Law, Discipline

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• Real improvement is of slow growth only.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Growth, Slow Growth

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• Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loss, Giving, Culture

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

  Pat Summitt

  Self, Havens, Self Improvement

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.

  John Elkington

  Real, Keys, Offering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community.

  Andrew Skurka

  Real, Community, Niche

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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