Improve Quotes
1602 quotes by 1176 authors
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educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop…
— Randy Pausch
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You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second,…
— Tina Fey
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I’m too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I don’t really know what “intellectual†means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things…
— Pete Doherty
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He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
— Kelley Armstrong
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Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will…
— Theodora Goss
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Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve", Perfectionism is other-focused:"What will they think
— Brené Brown
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A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.
— Randy Pausch
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Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing…
— N.D. Wilson
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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness…
— Albert Pike
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We don't miss what we never had, but we miss terribly things we almost had. And we miss things we used to have most of…
— Tonya Hurley
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want…
— Idries Shah
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... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed…
— Larry Crabb
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For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
— Hilary Mantel
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects…
— Jim Butcher
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I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.'…
— Jane Austen
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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
— Alan Watts
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In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that…
— Susan Cain
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