"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

"If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere."

"We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted."

"I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on."

"We make our purpose."

"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

"Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence."

"American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik."

"After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better."

"The most disappointing thing to me is I don't think we showed improvement,"

"I don't feel like we have enough depth. Lance has certainly made a lot of improvement. He is a veteran player that's starting to feel more comfortable in the system. He did make a couple of good plays in this game."

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” 

I would emphasize that by improving your physical machine, which includes the brain, you improve all of your performance, and the transfer is incredible to business.

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.”

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.”

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.” 

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.