Improvement Process Quotes

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.

Cause mo better makes it mo better.

I listen to [customers] and we make adjustments because we pretty much average a collection every six weeks. We're constantly taking everything in and taking notes.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see the reasons they're not good. I would sometimes suggest what could be done, but essentially say "It isn't worth the bother." So I learned from that process.

I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

With TV, it's the same way as preparing for the game of football. To get better at football, you have to watch the film and watch those who came before you and played the game, and yes, the first year you come in as a rookie and you're not gonna be as good as when you come in as a vet, and I applied that in the same way to 'Ton of Cash.'

If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won't happen overnight, but if you're systematic about it, the process will work.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.

It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.

Really it's all about what's inside the Superman suit. How you feel about yourself when you put that on because it's very revealing and very imposing if worn with confidence, I suppose. The first time I wore it, I didn't have that as much. I hadn't really trained any, yet. I hadn't read the script, I hadn't really worked on the character at that point. And I was standing around with a room full of costume designers and everybody was judging me right away and going, "Don't make your judgment on it, if this is Superman quite yet or not," because I hadn't done all the work that I would later do.

The quarterback needs to know when he's doing something wrong or how he can get better.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.