Quotes with improvement

  • They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
  • Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
  • 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.
  • Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.
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  • Winston Churchill Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Albert Pike Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • James Lendall Basford Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities.
    Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Santayana Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Samuel Johnson All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ernest Dimnet Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Arthur Erickson 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
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Adolf Loos Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Anthony Robbins Commit to CANI! Constant And Never-ending Improvement
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Charles Lamb He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Bill Gates Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • C. A. R. Hoare 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.
    Hints on Programming Language Design, December 1973
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • James A. Froude Human improvement is from within outward.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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