Quotes about Improvement

There's a practice available to each of us—the practice of embracing the process of creation in service of better. The practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output

Deep change is difficult, and worth it

Make things better. It's entirely possible that the thing you are marketing satisfies no real demand.

Initiative is a little like creativity in that both require curiosity. Not the search for the "right" answer, as much as an insatiable desire to understand how something works and how it might work better.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

Progress is the life-style of man.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out - that's what I like.

What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one's gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to "kindle afresh" his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit.