Improvement Quotes - Page 6

Strategy can win over tricky situations.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.

He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things.

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

The concern of a team member is also the concern of the team.

In sales, every prospect is a potential customer.

Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the only way to do it. Therefore, I say, let's try to get it done. And everybody says, 'difficult, difficult,' and nobody lifts a finger to try. And the only real difficulty is that everybody for one reason or another says that it's difficult. It's against human nature. Granted! Every decent thing is. It's socialism. Who cares?

Unwise application of knowledge is dangerous.

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

Work always makes a difference.

I should learn from today and make tomorrow better.

You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you.

In order to sell, salespersons have to correctly evaluate and cater to customer choices.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

Some team members act as adhesives to unite the team.

An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little.

When you keep seeking to improve, you will never get bored with your craft.

A sous-chef with dreams of her own restaurant empire may have mastered the art of classical French sauce making, but not yet have developed the signature cooking style she imagines as the cornerstone of her own chain of restaurants. She gauges her progress not only by whether she is moving toward her aspirations, but also by her improving skills. Our chef may not yet have the stature of Chef Auguste Escoffier or Emeril Lagasse, but she can remember a time when she could not name the five French mother sauces, let alone execute them. She's made progress. Appreciating the skills she has developed is a marker along the path toward her culinary aspirations. The sense of accomplishment that accompanies improved skills is one of the rewards we reap when we dedicate ourselves to mastery.

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing.

A team succeeds where an individual fails.

Recognition motivates.

It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.

It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?

Leaders prioritize what they want.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated at the first, it becomes easy to recognize but impossible to cure. And so it is with State affairs.

Change is inevitable, progress is not.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another.

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

There is immense power in an idea, because it unites people. It motivates them toward change. But the real power lies in their unity, in coming together – if enough can be rallied to a cause, no matter how ridiculous, it will be seen and heard.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.

Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Wellstone (Minnesota Senator, Al Franken predecessor)

Daily inspiration is uplifting to the spirit.

An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.

Humans' eyes cannot take in information when there is zero light reflecting back

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

Addressing the interests of the audience, results in effective communication.

Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.

The clearer the objective, the better the performance.

The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

Keep Trying is what it means to resolve to do something.

We should associate only with positive, focused people who we can learn from and who will not drain our valuable energy with complaining and uninspiring attitudes. When we develop and maintain relationships with those who are committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, we will have plenty of company on our path to the top of whatever mountain we seek to climb.

Sensible motivation is always effective.

Even a child can offer ideas for improvement.

Quality solves the trade-off between margins and sales.

Making it happen, It's just something you gotta do.

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet.

Welcome and embrace closed doors, as they are gateways to new opportunities.

Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.

How one treats another one, determines success.

The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised, the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked, and the natural obstacles, which time and space offer to mutual intercourse, have been reduced in a manner, and to an extent, unknown to former ages. The diminution or removal of local ignorance and prejudice, the creation of common interests among the most widely separated peoples, and the strengthening of the forces of the organisation of the commonwealth against those of political or social anarchy, thus effected, have exerted an influence on the present and future fortunes of mankind the full significance of which may be divined, but cannot, as yet, be estimated at its full value.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Workers can offer guidance for improving the work.

I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.