Improving Quotes - Page 10

• A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

  Edward Weston

  Faults, Lifetime, Bother

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. 
  (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

  Alex Ferguson

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Scotland, Knows

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• The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

  Tim Ferriss

  Jobs, Done, World

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• I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

  John Philip Sousa

  Thinking, Effort, Quality

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• Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.

  Jack Ma

  Simple, World, Today

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• Have you ever noticed how they keep improving your laundry detergent, but they still can't get those blue flakes out? Why do we trust them to get our clothes clean? These guys can't even get the DETERGENT white!

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Blue, White, Clothes

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• I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population they are targeted. Nor can I support any spending increases that are not related to improving our nation's defense from the obvious and serious threats facing us today.

  John McCain

  Cutting, Support, Population

  "Senators Debate Alternatives to Full Tax Cut". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Years, People

  Dave Barry (1994). “Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides”, Crown Pub

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• So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Pakistan, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Isis, Training

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• If you ever get to a wall, you just got to break that wall down and keep going, and I feel like I have come up with some conceptual songs that will really connect with people and that is something that I have been showing and improving my lyrical ability so much that I came to this realization that I also want to make music that people can connect with.

  Shane Bunting

  Song, Wall, People

  Source: 411mania.com

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• That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

  Ramez Naam

  Environmental, Energy, Brilliant

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for.

  David Wolfe

  Perspective, Research, Answers

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• The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Special, India, Physicians

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• Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

  Katy Butler

  Political, Care, End Of Life

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Success is not only the financial wealth you accumulate, it is also about being a leader, improving your relationships, living healthfully, and making a real difference in the world.

  Darren Hardy

  Real, Differences, Leader

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• I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.

  Charles Barkley

  Running, Real, War

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• Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Community, Psychology, Movement

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Rushing, House

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

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• Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

  George Orwell

  Ideas, World, Impossible

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• Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

  Bill Gates

  Innovation, Good Things, Human Condition

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• Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.

  Charles Sheeler

  Photography

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• The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.

  Patty Schemel

  Like You, Working It, Stills

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always good to be recognized, you know, for sport. I think being up there with Venus and Serena, I think, that's awesome. I'm excited. I'm happy that I am improving and getting better, and that I can be here.

  Sloane Stephens

  Sports, Thinking, Get Better

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