#improv

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#allies #analysis #capabilities #collection #defense

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. ↗

— Kim Collins

#improvement #instead #perfection #strive

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#down #god #handed #improved #law

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. ↗

— George Gershwin

#improvise #jazz #life #life is a #like

This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage. ↗

— Andrew Gould

#because #drainage #factor #improvement #just

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#dictate #happy #her #i #improved

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#am #autistic #background #behaviors #carpet

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. ↗

— David Halberstam

#brought #chandler #did #excellence #grand

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#any #anything #business #get #i