Something Better Quotes - Page 9

• This place [USA] is exploding with young people who are - they're like Nietzsche's hammer - going to break everything and make something better. The creative energy in this country, and what people are coming up with is very hopeful.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Usa, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

  Charles Buxton

  Desire, Movement, Creatures

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.

  James Redfield

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Ego

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• We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fighting, Thinking, Ideas

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• I don't have to do much. What I was surprised at and the challenge was that dealing with an ensemble cast who are in scenes together everyday all day, that is a challenge. It's a challenge to make sure everyone get as much coverage and attention, it got just kind of competitive. I loved it because it made it funnier, but the improv went nuts. People were like, "Oh wait. I have something better to say." "Now, I'm going to say..."

  Jerusha Hess

  Nuts, People, Waiting

  "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

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• We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Two, Alternatives, Possibility

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• When we believe we are losing control, we grab on tight. When our greatest fear comes upon us, we clench our fist and teeth, close our eyes and hold on. We must learn how to let go. When the time comes for growth and change, we must have the courage and faith to let go. Whatever leaves my life makes room for something better.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Believe, Eye

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 30, 2016

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• I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

  Katherine Center

  Struggle, Way, Young

  Interview with Angie Mizzell, angiemizzell.com. June 16, 2009.

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• I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

  Nan Goldin

  Photography, Can Do Something, I Can

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• The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

  Ziggy Marley

  Fighting, People, Revolution

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the psychological thriller piece of it. Because we are trapped in this isolated environment with a deadly virus, what's really interesting is that everyone's darkness comes out because we've got these life-and-death stakes going on. And then, there're these interesting relationships going on, but we can't quite deal with the relationship right now because we've got something better to do, which is survive.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Life And Death, Interesting, Darkness

  Source: collider.com

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• To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

  Bruce Mau

  Order, Liberty, Needs

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• You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.

  Jim Nantz

  Dad, Book, Writing

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• If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!

  Janet Macunovich

  Cutting, Should, Bigs

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• If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Imagination, Tragedy, Enough

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• Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.

  Richard Hugo

  Giving Up, Say Anything, Want

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• Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

  Stephen Covey

  Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Heart, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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• The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

  Joe Hill

  Mirrors, Way, Rearview Mirror

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• It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Running, Business

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want Something, Parent, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love, Heart, Squares

  Colleen Hoover (2014). “Ugly Love: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Holy, Millionaire

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