#improved

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#being #bluff #camp #come #commanders

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved. ↗

— Walt Disney

#go #how #i #improved #ride

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#improved #no problem #paltry #problem #too

We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas. ↗

— John Hench

#along #any #because #better #budget

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#bad #before #complex #dramatic #field

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#because #better #blood #days #demands

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. ↗

— John Cornyn

#any #broccoli #care costs #constitutionally #contributed

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#constantly #improved #increased #knowledge #vanishes

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#charter #charter schools #florida #gained #improved

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#before #could #enlightened #had #i