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Quotes About Improvements

This is known as the Pareto criterion and forms the basis for all judgements on social improvements in Neoclassical economics today.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.
~ Noah Webster
JACK: Yes, but said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary. ALGERNON: It usen't to be, I know - but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.
~ Oscar Wilde
En una empresa todo el mundo forma parte del sistema, de modo que las reacciones de los demás son el alma del conjunto: el intercambio de información permite a los individuos saber si el trabajo que hacen va bien o necesita ajustes, mejoras o un cambio total de dirección.
~ Daniel Goleman
Do not all improvements simply increase the value of land—the price that some must pay others for the privilege of living?
~ Henry George
I believe that properly regulated research in stem-cell biotechnology will lead to many valuable improvements in medical treatment and that objections on religious or ethical grounds should be vigorously opposed.
~ Jed Mercurio
We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.
~ Mike Simpson
human population densities were gradually rising throughout the late Pleistocene anyway, thanks to improvements in human technology for collecting and processing wild foods. As population densities rose, food production became increasingly favored because it provided the increased food outputs needed to feed all those people.
~ Jared Diamond
Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.
~ Ofra Strauss
Inclusive economic institutions also pave the way for two other engines of prosperity: technology and education. Sustained economic growth is almost always accompanied by technological improvements that enable people (labor), land, and existing capital (buildings, existing machines, and so on) to become more productive.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
That afternoon Malcolm went to the lean-to and inspected the improvements to La Belle Sauvage. The tarpaulin of coal-silk was as light and impermeable (he tried it) as Mr van Texel had said, and the clips to attach it to the gunwales were easy to work and firmly fixed. It was water-green in colour, like the boat herself, and he thought that when it was in place he and his vessel would be practically invisible
~ Philip Pullman
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
~ Ike Skelton
And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
~ Karl Marlantes
Twenty-two of those studies specifically found improvements in fluid intelligence or reasoning, while the remaining fifty-three found a variety of other significant benefits in abilities such as attention, executive function, working memory, and reading.
~ Unknown
I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they're good laughs, and sometimes they're bad laughs.
~ Scott Ellis
What matters most is for the school, the district, and the state to be able to say that more students have reached proficiency. This sort of fraud ignores the students' interests while promoting the interests of adults who take credit for nonexistent improvements.
~ Diane Ravitch
Make excuses or make improvements, The choice is yours.
~ Unknown
It's important to distinguish the value of raw land from the value of improvements made to land. Land values are socially generated and belong to the communities that have created them. The irony is that while improvements such as buildings don't affect the underlying value of the land upon which they are located, they do have the ability to indirectly affect the properties that surround them.
~ Unknown
When Paul had been called in, Tertullus opened the prosecution: “Because of you, we have enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought improvements to this nation.
~ Acts 24:2