Improvement Quotes - page 4

With each technological ‘revolution', more energies began to be accessed, stored, and used than had been in the preceding epoch...On the whole, technological change is irreversible: whatever the nature of a technological revolution, it is always from the hoe to the plough, and not the other way around...Improvement generally means greater efficiency in the use of energy, materials, or information. It means greater speed, less investment of time and money, and operation on a larger scale. (Ervin László)
You just said you were sorry." ... "I was only apologizing," he said stiffly, "for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you. View quote
Meg Cabot
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on. View quote
Andrew Weil
Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult. View quote
Ferdinand Porsche
I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed. View quote
James Patterson
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. View quote
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect. View quote
Alison Gopnik
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot. View quote
Arthur Blank
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. (Arthur Erickson)
Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down. View quote
Chris Hayes
Practice without improvement is meaningless. View quote
Chuck Knox
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another. View quote
David O. Selznick
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. View quote
Eli Broad
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. View quote
Frederick Sanger
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. View quote
Florida Scott-Maxwell
All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace. View quote
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help. View quote
Jason Kidd
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. View quote
Johann Most
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. View quote
John Redwood
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. View quote
Justin Winsor