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Improvement Quotes
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. - Ansel Adams Quotes
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. - Benjamin Franklin Quotes
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. - Ezra Cornell Quotes
Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues. - Ernie Fletcher Quotes
So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly. - Fred Thompson Quotes
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. - Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. - Friedrich List Quotes
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 Frederic Amiel Quotes
Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. - Jim Evans Quotes
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. - Kurt Huber Quotes
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesnt directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. - Thom Gunn Quotes
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. - Rick Wagoner Quotes
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. - Eliot Engel Quotes
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. - Eric Hoffer Quotes
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. - Hugh Blair Quotes
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of mans 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 Quotes
I think after this year I shall give up the Telegraph business to you and Col. Speed and I will turn my attention to the improvement of the property. - Ezra Cornell Quotes
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. - Socrates Quotes
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. - David O Selznick Quotes
Human improvement is from within outward. - James Anthony Froude Quotes
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change. - James Cash Penney Quotes
In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nations lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries. - Jerry Costello Quotes
Politics is about the improvement of peoples lives. Its about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people. - Paul Wellstone Quotes
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place. - Marguerite Gardiner Quotes
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. - James Rouse Quotes
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at. - Geddy Lee Quotes
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 K Brunel Quotes
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. - Margaret Haddix Quotes
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, theyre mutually reinforcing. - Michael Porter Quotes
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