He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.
It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
Fiction is an improvement on life
I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.
Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned.
WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"
. . . the change was adjustment without improvement.
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.