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• I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

  Frontinus

  War, Ideas, New Work

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• To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.

  Henry Kravis

  Real, Done, Buying

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• We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

  James Packer

  Business, People, Challenges

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• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  Will Durant

  Real, Character, Individuality

  "The Lessons of History". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1968.

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• Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Criticize

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• It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Opportunity, Variation, World

  Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett, Peter Gautrey (1989). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 15: On the Origin of Species, 1859”, p.62, NYU Press

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• Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it. Just as correct principles, when applied, carry their own witness that they are true, so do correct personal improvement programs. But we must not expect personal improvement without pain or some 'remodeling.' We can't expect to have the thrills of revealed religion without the theology. We cannot expect to have the soul stretching without Christian service.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Christian, Pain, Thinking

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• The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Way, Building

  "Facebook IPO Filing Reveals Its Stunning Size: A Private Jet, $1 Billion In Profits, And More" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Self, America, Kind

  Dinesh D'Souza (2012). “What's So Great About America”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• The secret art of inviting blessings.  The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.

  Mikao Usui

  Spiritual, Morning, Art

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• It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

  Colson Whitehead

  Failure, Perfect, Incentives

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor

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• No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Yield

  "To Help a Loved One in Need" by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. May 1988.

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• Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

  Sebastian Coe

  Athlete, Next Week, Years

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• One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Self, Creation, Divine

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.35, 1st World Publishing

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• The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.

  Brendan Brazier

  Perfection, Constant, Closest

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• Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self, Justice, Feminist

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• There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

  Craig Newmark

  Persistence, People, Listening

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• People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful
  conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of
  living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities
  whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, People, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Mean, Self

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• Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

  Frederick Sanger

  Art, Students, Pursuit

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• You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Perfect, Empowerment, Rooms

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• The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Keys, Achievement, Fundamentals

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• It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

  Dennis Miller

  Home, Nuts, Tape

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• Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Exercise, Science

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.371

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• When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Government, Kentucky

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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