How To Use Self-improvement In A Sentence
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Some voices within the labour movement stressed a blend of self-improvement, pleasure and health.
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He does so in the knowledge that it is a means to self-improvement.
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When the hunger for success diminishes the comfort zone beckons and the need for continuous self-improvement begins to take a back seat.
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The grandfather of all self-help books, which spawned an industry devoted to self-improvement, is being updated for the age of Facebook and Twitter.
Dale Carnegie's self-help bible gets a new life for the digital age
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Many faculty members find that the process of developing a portfolio stimulates self-improvement.
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At least one Scottish educational virtue - self-improvement - still thrives.
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And TV itself is driven by an engine of all-consuming self-improvement.
Why Absolutely Fabulous now looks absolutely prescient | Paul Flynn
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The concern for self-improvement and bettering one's social status carried over to their communal home, the church.
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Using self-improvement to become free is like trying to dig yourself out of a hole; the more you try, the deeper you get into the dirt.
Derek Rydall: Why It's Time For Self-Acceptance Over Self-Improvement
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But the possibility of self-improvement has become part of our culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Books on self-improvement have been a big draw at book fairs.
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There is an ingrained faith that effort and self-improvement will be rewarded, and that if things go wrong it is up to you to fix them.
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In the spirit of reflective self-improvement (and more, venally, self-promotion), I thought it would be worth giving myself a report card
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This was mitigated by Scotland's commitment, obsession even, with learning and self-improvement.
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It sounds convincingly like self-improvement.
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This macabre neo-noir cleverly satirises both ratings-driven news and soulless self-improvement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diet books, medical guides, how-tos and self-improvement schemes, after all, ritually command readers to do it this way, not that way.
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Our spirit: to seek truth with constant self-improvement, to spread culture of well-being and dare to realize our dreams but without self- complacence .
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An economy until recently dependent on peasant farming in harsh latitudes has shaped a stoic national character and an appetite for self-improvement.
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Education, self-improvement and enterprise were, historically, the natural instincts of Scots.
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Readers seeking inspiration and encouragement can choose from a number of books dealing with popular psychology and self-improvement.
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Hitchens swore off smoking a couple of years back in an orgy of self-improvement concocted by Vanity Fair, whose editors talked him into writing about getting a Brazilian bikini wax and prettifying his "British teeth," which he remembers as "crooked and jagged snaggle-fangs.
An easy label for Christopher Hitchens? Careful, it could be a fighting word
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The first step toward self-improvement begins with the desire to improve.
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From this perspective, cosmetic surgery can be grouped with laudable efforts at self-improvement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diet, therapy, exercise... It's all part of the cult of self-improvement.
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They vary their methods of study and practice in order to discover new strategies for self-improvement.
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Because self-improvement tastes best with a piquant little sprinkle of something self-defeating on top.
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Everyone seems to be on some kind of self-improvement programme, as if the disgust they feel towards the world at large includes their own self.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some people, one imagines, may be naturally dauntless and buoyant of heart, but with him, good spirits always seemed, far more admirably, to be the product of a strict program of self-improvement in his youth he believed, like most truly modest men, in the absolute virtue of self-improvement which had wrought deep, essential changes in a nature inclined by birth to the darker view and gloominess that cropped up elsewhere in the family tree.
Excerpt: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
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The diploma he will receive when he graduates will open many doors to further self-improvement.
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Most people go about their daily lives committed to self-improvement and informal ways of learning.
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The manual is full of the jargon and slang of self-improvement courses.
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On his own initiative, he launched himself on a course of self-improvement that bolstered the inner quality that positive psychologist Salvatore Maddi calls "hardiness.
Jeff Wise: Forging a Soul of Iron
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I am as guilty as the next when it comes to pledging self-improvement and other typical resolutions.
Ronda Carman: Out With the Old?
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The book's themes of character and self-improvement were developed from his years swimming for Dartmouth.
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A lot of what people do for fun, or for self-realisation or self-improvement, revolves around knowledge.
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I idly went back to the archives for last January and read with amusement my musings about my lamentable inability to keep my desk clean or to engage in other seemingly modest self-improvement projects.
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Bloom, a pugnacious professor, says that he reads to clear his mind of cant and for self-improvement, not to influence others, which seems somewhat disingenuous given the subject of his book.
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“Every week I pick up a pearl that I can use as a self-improvement tool.”
American Grace
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Perhaps most tellingly, Roffey admits that, despite all the workshops and zestful attempts at sexual self-improvement, she actually likes her "flawed and crooked self" and in some ways makes a writerly choice to remain "blind" because "I wanted to turn the darkness in me into prose".
With the Kisses of His Mouth by Monique Roffey – review
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In the off-season try to work to improve yourself, because self-improvement is greatly appreciated by the coaches.
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She said that she was studying English at the university due to personal interest, with the purpose of self-improvement.
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Government, they insisted, had a duty to help the people effect their individual self-improvement, by enacting temperance reform and by building reformatories, asylums, and new-model prisons (all of which required public taxation).
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And all that strenuous, self-improvement stuff people do - ugh!
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My idea of self-improvement is to stay at home, explore a new book and, as I am an early riser, to go to bed early.
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Retirement is not a stroll across a sunlit upland filled with sport, sightseeing and self-improvement.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lot of what people do for fun, or for self-realisation or self-improvement, revolves around knowledge.
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‘Such self-improvement balderdash will do nothing but relegate you to a career in mediocrity,’ Eliot contends.
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There is nothing like self-improvement and self-reliance.
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In a region rife with conflict, the iron sport offers a positive road to self-improvement and enlightenment.
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People find self-reflection and self-improvement in a variety of ways. . .
Staring Into the Chasm
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dreams," as he called her longings for self-improvement.
Pushing to the Front
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With voluntaryism and self-improvement went self-respect, a code of honesty and a sense of respectability.
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This is a part of the process of self-improvement that all companies need to integrate.
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To guide another to self-improvement is the highest calling.
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The church meeting's tones are of profound sadness and joyful exuberance; the conversazione's atmosphere is marked by deep seriousness and the rhetoric of self-improvement.
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If you turned the sound down, you might have imagined this was a self-improvement programme on purposeful walking for the aged.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a disease in the Western World, and it's called "self-improvement.
Derek Rydall: Why It's Time For Self-Acceptance Over Self-Improvement
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We've got a self-improvement system which is pretty unique in the bus industry and the staff are buying into it.
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He was largely self-educated, a militant atheist, and believed fervently in man's capacity for self-improvement.
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Rather than acquiesce, many women won a voice in the public sphere by forming societies and clubs for self-improvement and community reform.
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Coming from a family of middling rank, he received little formal education, but soon developed a penchant for self-improvement and an ambition to better himself.
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Heaven revolves, the gentleman to unremitting self-improvement.
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Beyond self-improvement for each child, Johann stresses the broader societal impact of Right To Play programs.
Soccer Ball Diplomacy
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Men lose their capacity for self-improvement along with their sense of individual dignity.
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As I have shown, the structure of opportunities in late imperial society was predicated on self-improvement in the management of human relationships.
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If this is a self-improvement holiday, it is hardly the stuff of hair shirts and learning by rote.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Quantified Self, which, in the name of self-improvement, provides tools for collecting data on every aspect of your daily life: sleeping, eating, having sex, worrying, having coffee and so forth.
NYT > Home Page
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Some New Age lucid dreamers, however, believe that lucid dreaming is essential for self-improvement and personal growth.
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As well, the austere lifestyle chosen by King Ferdinand and his lords could be the medieval equivalent of today's self-improvement craze.
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The older nexus between self-improvement and traditional morality perdures as an undiminished factor in their worldview.
