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Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.
Many times after a game, I get the feeling that I have not done enough, I should have done better, of course there is room for improvement.
In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
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.
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.
Lee Chung-yong has been playing well and trying hard at Bolton and has grown in confidence. His improvement is valuable for the national team.
Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.
The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.
My main improvement on defense has just been my coaches. They've been teaching me defensive schemes, how to guard guys, and how to use my length.
The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.
When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.
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.
Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.
By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.
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.
There is always room for improvement, and I have always grown up knowing however well I have done, there is always something I could have done better.
In reality, Senator Shelby's Financial Regulatory Improvement Act is nothing more than a wish list for the Wall Street bankers that fund his campaign.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
I always feel as though I've made a significant improvement after every training session. It's never S-O-S, same old stuff. It's always something new.
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Mary J. Blige has made the most improvement, to me, and the depth of the spirit and the soul in her music, the way she sings, gives her that 'it' factor.
I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.
We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
Yeah, at the end of the year you always sit back and you evaluate, and unless you have a perfect season with no misses there is always room for improvement.
The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.
In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.
In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole