Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."
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Improvement
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Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
James Monroe
Politician
"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."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die."
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"Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise."
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"Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people"
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"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
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"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."
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"When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life."
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"Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking."
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"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."
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"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."
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"Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements."
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"Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others."
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"I improve on misquotation."
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"Let us cultivate our garden."
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"When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it."
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"Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life."
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"Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon."
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"You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards."
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"Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life"
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"Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving."
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"It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing."
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"Man cannot really improve himself without improving others."
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