#prove

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#average #babies #because #been #discovered

I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#compelling #especially #everyday #everyday lives #extraordinary

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. ↗

— Tom Peters

#change #constant #excellence #excellent #firms

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ↗

— Tom Peters

#almost #comes #design #improvement #layout

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. ↗

— Tom Peters

#chance #everyone #improve #learn #skills

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#built #comfort #companies #full #given

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. ↗

— William Pollard

#change #creativity #improvement #incentive #inevitable

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#approve #fools #men #sense