#prove

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#across #always #being #clear #common

What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes. ↗

— Julian Assange

#benefit #clear #conducted #conducting #how

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#constantly #funny #i #i do #lady

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#charitable #commit #courses #design #discretion

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

#culture #false #fatal #forms #growth

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

#form #honesty #improved #industry #kindness

Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowerment #enhance #improve #inspirational #life

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. ↗

— Askhari Johnson Hodari

#cooperation #inspirational #proverbs #unity #wisdom

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people! ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#improvements #inspirational #change

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982).... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances. ↗

— Sandra L. Schneider

#expectations #improvement #learning #optimism #performance