Buried deep within you…is the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Nemesis (2002 Film).
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere. – Henry Charles Carey
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. – Guy Debord
I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers – which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units. – Harold Ford, Jr.
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong. – Grover Norquist
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact. – John Quincy Adams
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
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient’s renal and cardiopulmonary status. – Joe Murray
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement. – John Mackey
The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status. – James Heckman
The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future – but it’s never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project – so you’re immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on. – Iain Sinclair
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. – John Redwood
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. – Johann Most
We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives. – Indira Gandhi
I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand. – Andy Roddick
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. – Bill Gates
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. – Benjamin Franklin
This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage. – Andrew Gould
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. – Christopher Lasch
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. – Adolf Loos
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s 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
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. – Christopher Lasch
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn’t have the same exponential, transformative effect. – Alison Gopnik
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. – Arthur Erickson
I have something to prove, as long as I know there’s something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman’s movement. – Ani DiFranco
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. – Anthony Trollope
I sold door to door for a couple years. As the years recede from the event, I remember less about it, which is probably good for my mind. It was home improvement in Cerritos California, Buena Park, that area. – Andy Kindler