Quotes of Improving - somelinesforyou

“ I am still progressing. ”

- Pierre Auguste Renoir

“ When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath. ”

- Richard A. Nelson

“ Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. ”

- Anne Bradstreet

“ Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools? ”

- B.F. Skinner

“ Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process. ”

- Blanche Lincoln

“ The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs. ”

- Jay Rockefeller

“ Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ”

- Steven Soderbergh

“ He's recovering very quickly but his doctors advised him not to come at this stage so he can recoup and get playing again. ”

- Gary Player

“ Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. ”

- Socrates

“ Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others. ”

- Unknown

“ There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. ”

- Russell P. Askue

“ Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. ”

- Marion Wright Edelman

“ Man cannot really improve himself without improving others. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one. ”

- Ralph Ransom

“ Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. ”

- Unknown

“ Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ”

- Andrew Grove

“ The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ”

- Mikhail Gorbachev

“ Hedonic Engineering — The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil? ”

- Robert Wilson

“ You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ”

- Madame Marie Curie

“ Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred! ”

- Richard Chamberlain

“ Having the right attitude, you see, about family-related issues is crucial, and there are encouraging signs that attitudes are improving. But attitude isn't everything. Historical patterns show that without the foundation of a solid biblical worldview, attitudes can easily shift back and forth with the prevailing breezes. ”

- Charles Colson

“ I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life. ”

- James Jeffords

“ If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. ”

- Michael J. Tucker

“ I think it is really terrifying that we are narrowing down to a mechanistic assessment of children by how many pass exams… if standards meant improving right across the board, character, originality, interests, then I wouldn't mind so much. But it doesn't… ”

- Shirley Williams

“ The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and 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 precedes making and keeping promises to others… ”

- Stephen Covey
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