Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
There's always room for improvement. That's my mindset.
Aaron Donald
Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.
To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
Aaron Judge
Defensively, hitting-wise, running the bases. There's always room to improve. That motivates me to get a little better every day.
It's nice to have it recognised that I'm doing well and to have people saying good things about me, but I try not to take too much interest. I just try to focus on my own game and what I need to do to improve.
Aaron Ramsey
All I want to do is improve as a player.
Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
Aaron Rodgers
I'm a bit undercooked when it comes to keeping in Test cricket, but I've had a lot of experience in T20 and ODIs for my country, and my keeping has improved a lot.
AB de Villiers
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
Abbas Kiarostami
In any business, there are facilities that excel at what they do and others that need improvement and further training.
Abby Johnson
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.
Abhijit Banerjee
I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.
Abhimanyu Singh
I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.
Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
Abhishek Bachchan
For generations, farmers in Central Virginia and across the United States have engaged in voluntary conservation practices that have not only improved crop quality, but also protected our clean soil and water.
Abigail Spanberger
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.
By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.
Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
We don't ever want to be complacent, and it's good to look back and see places you can improve. That's a good mentality to have.
I am always looking to improve.
Yeah, at the end of the year you always sit back and you evaluate, and unless you have a perfect season with no misses there is always room for improvement.
It's about working hard, resting when you need to, leading a healthy life, and having a support structure around you. These factors help you improve.
I joined Aston Villa to improve myself in the Premier League. It started well but then I got injured and Villa ended up having five managers that season.
I like to improve myself every day and whatever my performance, I will always believe I can do better.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.
If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work, and you have to improve. Every year, you must get better.
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
I'm working really hard on my practice routine which I'm really enjoying and I'm constantly trying to improve with the help of Target Darts.
There is always room for improvement even if you're getting 110 averages.
I am hoping to improve my writing and rapping, as well as get a better grasp on how to make beats and music that complements what I do vocally. It's a learning process that hopefully won't end.
I don't want to hit a point where I feel there is nothing to improve upon - there always is.
I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.
I think there is always room for improvement.
When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person.
The mentality needs to be changed, and sometimes legislation needs to be improved. There is a perception that apprenticeships are for jobs with low qualifications.
There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.
Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.
It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.
