Improvement Quotes

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

We must build back better than ever before.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves.

Your tomorrow should always be better than your today.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

I always try to make my next song better than the last.

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life – as an artist and as a person – has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.