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1. "Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before."
Author: Ada Louise Huxtable

2. "When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically."
Author: Ajay Naidu

3. "Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end."
Author: Albrecht Dürer

4. "I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world."
Author: Anne Lamott

5. "I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves."
Author: Anthony Jeselnik

6. "Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life."
Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

7. "Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice."
Author: Benjamin Franklin

8. "The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves us unimproved; it actually leaves us being less than we were prior to making those assessments. I believe that the moral of this natural occurrence, is that we are all born to find and fix our own shortcomings; rather than find and fix the shortcomings in others. And if all people were to do this, then we would be a race of creatures looking inward, in order to bring out something better. Now think of what a beautiful race that would be."
Author: C. JoyBell C.

9. "Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people"
Author: C.S. Lewis

10. "Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories."
Author: Chris Van Hollen

11. "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
Author: Christopher Marlowe

12. "States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities."
Author: Corrine Brown

13. "The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly."
Author: Derek Bok

14. "Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."
Author: Edward Teller

15. "Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage."
Author: Elizabeth George

16. "When trust improves, the mood improves."
Author: Fernando Flores

17. "Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup."
Author: Gary Neville

18. "Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce."
Author: Gavin Newsom

19. "Even for those thousands of young people who don't get something out there [in a university writing program], the process is still a noble one — the process of trying to say something, of working through craft issues and the worldview issues and the ego issues — all of this is character-building, and, God forbid, everything we do should have concrete career results. I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person"
Author: George Saunders

20. "By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly."
Author: Greg Lynn

21. "Happy are they whose pens fly across the page; I myself hesitate, I falter. I become angry and fearful. My drive diminishes as my taste improves. I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well proportioned paragraph."
Author: Gustave Flaubert

22. "Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others."
Author: Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu Talib

23. "...in early pregnancy her ability to tolerate heat stress improves by about 30 percent and in late pregnancy by at least 70 percent. Indeed, when a woman exercises at 65 percent of her maximum capacity in late pregnancy, her peak core temperature during exercise does not even get up to the level it was at rest before she became pregnant."
Author: James F. Clapp III

24. "Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything."
Author: James Thurber

25. "Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a roughsketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior anyway one can, knowing the sentences will have to be revised,knowing the characters' actions may change. It makes no differencehow clumsy the sketch is—sketches are not supposedto be polished and elegant. All that matters is that, going overand over the sketch as if one had all eternity for finishing one'sstory, one improves now this sentence, now that, noticingwhat changes the new sentences urge, and in the process onegets the characters and their behavior clearer in one's head,gradually discovering deeper and deeper implications of thecharacters' problems and hopes."
Author: John Gardner

26. "Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success."
Author: Keith Henson

27. "[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy."
Author: Lawrence Lessig

28. "As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in."
Author: Lee Harvey Oswald

29. "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

30. "It is no use thinking that writing of poems – the actual writing – can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude."
Author: Mary Oliver

31. "Saving entails sacrifice; maybe that's why it brings rewards. Those that save always have. If tomorrow you face a problem -you lose your job or your business, you know you can survive until the situation improves or you start another business, this time with firm foundations. However those that do not save..."
Author: Mauricio Chaves Mesén

32. "Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love. Nothing proves this more dramatically than how we treat our loved ones.pg 63"
Author: Michael Ben Zehabe

33. "Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?"
Author: Naveen Jain

34. "People who spend their time searching for feet of clay will miss not only the heavens wherein God moves in His majesty and power, but God's majesty as He improves and shapes a soul."
Author: Neal A. Maxwell

35. "Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith

36. "What's measured improves"
Author: Peter F. Drucker

37. "But if man genuinely produces man, it is precisely not through work and it's concrete results, not even the 'work on oneself' so widely praised in recent times, let alone through the alternatively invoked phenomena of 'interaction' or 'communication': it is through life in forms of practice. Practice is defined here as any operation that provides or improves the actor's qualification for the next performance of the same operation, whether it is declared as practice or not."
Author: Peter Sloterdijk

38. "All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

39. "Green exercise improves psychological health."
Author: Richard Louv

40. "Floggings will continue until apathy improves! (Apathy-improves?) How is one to be, more, apathetic!!"
Author: Robert Armstrong

41. "In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves."
Author: Rumi

42. "My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results."
Author: Seth Godin

43. "Irish improves a poet."
Author: Sina Queyras

44. "As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."
Author: Susan Faludi

45. "Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say."For what? Nothing's going on here," he says. "Besides, I like watching you sleep. You don't scowl. Improves your looks a lot."This, of course, brings on a scowl that makes him grin."
Author: Suzanne Collins

46. "Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup."
Author: Suzanne Collins

47. "For what? Nothing's going on here," he says. "Besides I like watching you sleep. You don't scowl. Improves your looks a lot."
Author: Suzanne Collins

48. "It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth."
Author: Thomas Jefferson

49. "I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing."
Author: Tony Abbott

50. "I smile sadly, in light of what came nextto think that I told herIf you can just hang on, things are bound to improveshe made me a liar, too--the woman who dug the holeI've been trying to write myself out ofever since"
Author: Tony O'Neill

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