Ihara Saikaku Quotes

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

You can always improve as a player; there's never a time when you can say anything is perfect.

There's always room for improvement. That's my mindset.

I'm always looking to learn and am never happy with how I am going. I think once you get comfortable with what you are offering it is dangerous territory to be in.

That's always my mentality. There's always room for improvement.

There's always so much to improve, no matter your age.

I don't want to hit a point where I feel there is nothing to improve upon - there always is.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.