#improv

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. ↗

— Johann Most

#christians #disease #god #heal #improve

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#because #between #big #cannot #constant

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#define #improve #internal #jihad #many

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact. ↗

— Larry Page

#clean #clean energy #energy #generating #groups

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#also #attempts #common #common sense #create

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. ↗

— Evan Parker

#attacks #attitude #between #certain #certain kinds

Improvisation is a compositional method. ↗

— Evan Parker

#improvisation #method

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#business #everything #exactly #i #important

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#improving #investing #never #never stop #new

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport. ↗

— Fred Perry

#been #bringing #change #credit #great