Improvement Quotes

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

All improvement happens project by project and in no other way.

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

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.

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Don't make excuses - make improvements!

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Human improvement is from within outward.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

I definitely feel there's room for improvement.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

Vanity prevents improvement

Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement.
Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.

Talent comes from experience and failure

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.