Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold. – Khan Noonien Singh Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Space Seed’.
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don’t ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved. – Harrison Ford
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. – Hans Eysenck
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. – Havelock Ellis
At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities. – Guilherme Leal
The ‘Alliance for Progress’ was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures. – Hugo Chavez
China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment. – Hu Jintao
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. – Horace Walpole
Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go. – Heber J. Grant
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. – Johann Most
I need to improve my shorter stuff with my irons, from 100 to 175 yards. If I can hit a few more greens with those clubs and tighten up the proximity to the hole, that would help a lot. – Jason Day
I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I’m surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are. – Ivan Reitman
We started Kotter International to improve leaders’ ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations – and in their lives. – John P. Kotter
Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That’s coasting. And I don’t want Basecamp to coast. – Jason Fried
Played tennis for years. But you can’t improve at tennis after you’re 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you’re a doubles player. – Jack Nicholson
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives. – Jeff Bezos
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. – James Allen
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. – Joyce Meyer
I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight. – Alberto Tomba
Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey sea, grey houses, and grey roofs, look harmoniously dull. – Isabella Bird
My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in. – Arnold Palmer
The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve. – Caroline Wozniacki
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. – Arthur Bloch
