Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
Every adversity in life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to break us or make us. The choice is ours… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company.… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You… — Mary Wells Lawrence Copy Share Image
The incarnation was not initially imposed on the spirits as a punishment. It is rather necessary for the spirits' improvement and for… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What I've been able to do is pretty cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement. — Gerrit Cole Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous… — Harry Hopkins Copy Share Image
