#proving

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#building #category #destroyers #drags #human

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#getting #improving #middle #middle age #old

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance. ↗

— Yao Ming

#distance #everybody #i #i am #improving

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#because #coach #could #day #doing

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#championships #constantly #fitness #i #improving

I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested. ↗

— Fernando Alonso

#because #built #country #culture #day

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#children #church #concentrate #feel #highest

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting. ↗

— Eric Bana

#each #go #improving #interpretation #know

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#ally #better #diet #easy #everyone

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#best #come #distractions #game #hard