Improve And Catch Quotes & Sayings

I never had a postup game, which really hurt me eventually. Later in my career, teams would put smaller guys on me to stop my shooting and driving and I wasn't able to exploit my height advantage. I would just take bigger guys outside and drive or shoot my setshot. — Dolph Schayes

Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize it with knowledge of all kinds, improve its powers of expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem poets, our one-picture painters, have merely failed to perfect themselves as instruments. The Genius who wrote The Ancient Mariner is no less sublime than he who wrote The Tempest; but Coleridge had some incapacity to catch and express the thoughts of his genius - was ever such wooden stuff as his conscious work? - while Shakespeare had the knack of acquiring the knowledge necessary to the expression of every conceivable harmony, and his technique was sufficiently fluent to transcribe with ease. — Aleister Crowley

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you'll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you'll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you'll see stuff that's long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good. — Dan Alatorre

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had. — George Kennedy

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — William Samuel Johnson

I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted. — Vijay Singh

More often than not it's the mascara and lipstick combination that tips the balance. These military wives could do with some lessons. Seriously. Why would you leave the house looking like a monkey had a party on your face? — Richard House

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour,
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer-man a flower;
He dies-alas! how soon he dies! — Samuel Johnson

He was a humorous, good-natured man, maybe because he hoped for little and expected less and took his satisfactions where he found them. — Wendell Berry

Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf. — Alex Steffen

... saying that you don't have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don't have time to stop for gas because you're too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you. - The Monk who sold his Ferrari — Robin S. Sharma

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! — St. Jerome

Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians. — Monica Johnson

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work. — Hideo Kojima

At that moment he understood, far better than he had before when he studied their histories and their political structures before he arrived, what it was to be human. Their whole existence was centered upon suffering. That was the first time he considered humanity's massive potential. They made frequent mistakes, yes, but if those mistakes were adequately painful they made every effort to avoid repeating them, to improve upon their errors. To be more careful so they didn't catch their thumb under the hammerhead. — Sean DeLauder

Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked. — Veronica Roth

If you catch yourself doing things right, everything in your life will improve - especially your relationships. That's because it's fun to be around people who like themselves. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Ours is the "land of the free" - nobody denies that - nobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.] — Mark Twain

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it — Justin Bieber