Marie Curie

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Polish Scientist

Florence Nightingale

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.

English Activist

Benjamin Franklin

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

American Politician

John Hagel III

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

American Businessman

Kirby Smart

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.

American Coach

Dr. Dre

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

American Musician

Ike Skelton

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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.

Statesman

Andrew Robertson

I'll never praise myself, because I think there's always improvement to be made.

Scottish Athlete

Helmut Schmidt

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

German Statesman

Use 'improvement' when discussing a process or progress that is ongoing.

Process Focus

Often implies a measurable change, like test scores or production rates.

Measurable Change

'Improvement' can refer to a new, better version of a product, especially in tech.

Version Upgrade

An improvement is expected to make things easier or more efficient.

Expected Benefit

In real estate, 'improvement' refers to anything that adds value to property.

Property Value

Can include non-physical upgrades, like a security system.

Not Always Physical

Use 'improvement' for positive changes in habits, health, or character.

Positive Change

It can be subjective; what one person sees as an improvement, another may not.

Subjective Perception

 And finally, if you want to learn a language fluently, you need also a bit of patience. It's not possible to learn a language within two months, but it's definitely possible to make a visible improvement in two months, if you learn in small chunks every day in a way that you enjoy. And there is nothing that motivates us more

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 in a demographic transition, as a country moves from a pre-industrial society to one with an industrial or post-industrial economy. Countries that have only recently begun the process of industrialization typically see an increase in life expectancy and a fall in child mortality rates as a result of improvements

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 you've kind of said, well, no this is the year, we're confident that it will be there in a year or two or, you know, like it's always been about that far away. But we've got a new architecture now, you're seeing enough improvement behind the scenes to make you not certain, but pretty confident,

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 it's inflated I still can't imagine what it's going to look believe that little blower is lifting that weight it's amazing isn't it the speed with which this technology can be used may allow huge improvements in how the world reacts to humanitarian crises a concrete canvas building has good

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 takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence. So what does practice do in our brains to make us better at things? Our brains have two kinds of neural grey matter and white matter.

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 can lead to improvements in obesity-related health issues. And weight loss from sustained lifestyle changes, or invasive treatments like bariatric surgery, can improve insulin resistance and decrease inflammation. What was once an advantage for survival is now working against us.

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 on action video games, they actually perform better, and the improvement is still there five months after having done the training. That's really, really important. Why? Because I told you we want to use these games for education or for rehabilitation. We need to have effects

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 incremental improvements that's how we get profits right so our profitability we want to be able to make sure that it's going to happen right we want to be able to predict it and we benefit from it so we have to be really careful incremental ism is important sometimes

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 nest and while we're there we'll have a look at the nest box see if there's any improvements we can make rescued owls are relocated back to where they were found as this gives them the best possible chance of survival as their habitats are proven to support

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 And this is not the highest utility subway in the world. So yeah, it's quite difficult to dig tunnels normally. I think we need to have at least a tenfold improvement in the cost per mile of tunneling. And how could you achieve that?