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  No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

  Tiger Woods

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

  George Soros

  Views, People, Divergent

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

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• It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Redemption

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Race, Charity

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.19, Penguin

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• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Wise, Information Knowledge

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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  Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2016

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• Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

  Kim Collins

  Perfection, Strive, Continuous Improvement

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• The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

  David Lee Roth

  Self, Knowing, Quitting

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• Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

  Winston Churchill

  Path, Feels, Explosives

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.340, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Mistake, Team

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

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• As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

  Dan Simmons

  Average, Years, Long

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• To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

  Fred Perry

  Sports, Athlete, Leader

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• Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Humanity

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Quality, Purity

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

  Thom Gunn

  Writing, Thinking, Class

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• The never-ending task of self improvement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Self

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• The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Progress Of Society, World, Conditions

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 27, 1890.

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• Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Want, Mathematician, Managers

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• Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

  David Brainerd

  Time, Be Careful, Careful

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.124

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• Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

  Christopher Lasch

  Alternatives, Ruins, Arise

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• Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

  Christopher Lasch

  Heart, Upgrading, Taste

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Games, Play, Doe

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• Practice without improvement is meaningless.

  Chuck Knox

  Wrestling, Practice, Meaningless

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• Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Cutting, Loss, Humanity

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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