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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements. -- Frank Dane
The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.' -- Frank Dane
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities. -- Alan Greenspan
You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? -- Frank Herbert
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. -- Shimon Peres
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind. -- William Penn
Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. -- Calvin Coolidge
The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. -- Lionel Messi
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. -- William Law
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. -- Ike Skelton
I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements. -- Kevin Nash
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next. -- Dan Ariely
Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it. -- Kenneth Fisher
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements. -- Fabrice Grinda
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own. -- Siegfried Lenz
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. -- Casey Kasem
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. -- Al Gore
President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited. -- Alan Dershowitz
Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements. -- Danny Meyer
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. -- Lionel Messi
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. -- Casey Kasem
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. -- John Boyd Orr
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. -- Alexander Graham Bell
The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements. -- Tyler Cowen
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities. -- Martin Heinrich
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek. -- Tony Judt
I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements. -- Martin Campbell
I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need. -- Margaret Chan
Don't make excuses - make improvements! -- Tyra Banks
Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements, -- Wally Byam
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. -- Robin Sharma
There is always room for improvements! My strength comes from above! -- Corey Hill
Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements. -- Lewis Howes
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. -- Alexander Graham Bell
God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements -- W.S. Gilbert
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. -- Karl Popper
Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a 'big picture' sort of guy. I prefer making small improvements each day. -- Luke Donald
We are each a gift, exactly as we are in this moment, with no improvements! -- Sark
An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most. -- Robin Sharma
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change. -- John P. Kotter
Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time. -- Robin Sharma
Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture. -- Larry Beinfest
I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game. -- Duncan Keith
It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life. -- Brian Tracy
Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements. -- Charlie Munger
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. -- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts -- Ernst Mayr
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. -- Benjamin Franklin
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. -- C. S. Lewis
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. -- C. S. Lewis
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values. -- Tony Dungy
It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it. -- Robert Falcon Scott
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid. -- Peter Singer
When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career. -- Brad Lidge
If you focus on the flaws of others it takes away from the improvements that you may need to make. -- Christofer Drew
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. -- Abraham Lincoln
I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful. -- Martin Amis
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. -- Michael Marmot
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site. -- James Altucher
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. -- John Stuart Mill
The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable. -- Kaoru Ishikawa
In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away. -- Robert Reich
The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living. -- Andrew Lansley
At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements. -- Max McKeown
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research -- Ike Skelton
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here. -- Ai Weiwei
Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements. -- Kevin Nash
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process. -- E. B. White
Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens. -- Donald Trump
Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day. -- Theodore Levitt
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product. -- Jared Diamond
Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction. -- Finley Peter Dunne
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. -- John Stuart Mill
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional. -- Dean Kamen
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency. -- John Stewart Bell
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
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
Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood. -- Mark Noble
The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were. -- Joseph J. Romm
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms. -- Ingrid Newkirk
We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear. -- Frank P. Ramsey
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
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. -- David Ricardo
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. -- Theodor Svedberg
I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements. -- Darrell Hammond
To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education. -- Noah Webster
Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements. -- Max Wertheimer
When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward. -- Georges St-Pierre
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible." -- Yuan T. Lee
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. -- Yuan T. Lee
When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements. -- Richard Branson
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity. -- James Madison
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience. -- Casey Kasem
The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government. -- Alexander Hamilton
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm focused on doing what makes me happiest and on how I can make real improvements and contributions to my immediate niche, i.e. my family, friends, and local community. -- Andrew Skurka
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. -- Jonathan Swift
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. -- David Korten
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations. -- Alexander Hamilton
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished. -- Leland Stanford
Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements. -- Jimmy Fallon
He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements. -- Marisha Pessl
There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it? -- Roger Babson
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. -- Rick Wagoner
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly. -- Prince Philip
Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. -- Martin Feldstein
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. -- Rick Wagoner
The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly. -- Tom Sutton

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