Improvingyes Quotes & Sayings

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads. — Phil Lesh

The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which we strip off the sophistications of millenia of culture and report as directly as we can on what happens. — Percy Williams Bridgman

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they weren't in the mood. Always pushing, practicing, working, and improvingYes it takes thousands of hours of practice, but that's good news! It's a clear path and it's under your control. — Derek Sivers

God is the hub of the wheel of life. The closer we come to God the closer we come to each other. The basis of community is not primarily our ideas, feelings, and emotions about each other but our common search for God. When we keep our minds and hearts directed toward God, we will come more fully together. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child

We invent what we love and what we fear. — John Irving

We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and if you take a bite of that apple, you will go the way of Abel when this is clearly the land of Cain. — Shane Kuhn

A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of the void. It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own. It seemed now to play itself, he and his fellow actors aiding it with their parts. When the curtain fell on the last scene he heard the void filled with applause and, through a rift in a side scene, saw the simple body before which he had acted magically deformed, the void of faces breaking at all points and falling asunder into busy groups. — James Joyce

First love is stripping down everything to essential truths, setting aside your fears and doubts and seeing who you are in someone else's eyes. In first love you first find yourself. — Chloe Thurlow

Ash has worked with my dad, so I have to call her Aunty, na? — Sonam Kapoor

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state. — Gray Davis

Look at the path ahead of you. I want you to keep your eyes dead ahead, stay on path, and not take your eyes off your end goal. Following that path with focus and dedication will be your best route to the top. — Liz Green

The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia. — Adam Phillips

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.] — Sarah Caudwell

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice. — Ronald Biggs