Improvement Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Opposites, Keys

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• Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

  Jon Jones

  Trust, Disappointment, Eye

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• We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

  David Price

  Country, Community, Police

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• Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

  James Monroe

  Preparation, President, Kind

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Abuse, Rebuilding, Revolution

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Work, Intellectual, Statistics

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 219 (13 April 1773)

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• We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.216, Shambhala Publications

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• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Strong, Energy, May

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• One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Children, Important, Migrants

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• The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Jobs, Texas, People

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• I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you... That can be an awesome motivating force that can improve your life if you choose to be inspired and not jealous. One (being jealous) has no benefit whatsoever, the other is an incredible resource for creating momentum and improvement.

  Joe Rogan

  Jealous, Mma, Creating

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Wise, Good Life

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• It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.

  William Morley Punshon

  Wise, Disappointment, Character

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• It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

  Adam Fletcher

  Meaningful, School, Voice

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• The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

  Madame de Stael

  Evil, Progress, Fables

  "The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.

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• Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

  Justin Kan

  Remembers Everything, Today, Building

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• The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media.

  David Lereah

  Appreciation, Wall, Home

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• Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Vaccines, Fda

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• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

  William Hazlitt

  Blessing, Past, Long

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1176, Delphi Classics

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• Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.

  Wally Byam

  Making Changes

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