Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.
The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on.
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.