Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
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.
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.
For our improvement we need a mirror.
Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.
Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.
I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.
Practice only makes for improvement.
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.