Better Than You Quotes - Page 7

• I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

  Kerri Walsh

  Want, Right Now

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• Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

  Jack Welch

  People, Leader, Failing

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• There’s always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has that something that makes them different.

  Lana Parrilla

  Different, Way

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• This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, Lying

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

  Gina Carano

  People, Get Better, Want

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• But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Lying, Lasts, Film

  "Paul Thomas Anderson strikes cinematic oil". www.today.com. January 3, 2008.

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• That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.

  Victoria Laurie

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

  Derek Landy

  Love Is, Holding On, Finding Someone

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• In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'

  J. Cole

  Rap, Love Is, Men

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• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  Jacki Weaver

  Jobs, Challenges, New Job

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

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Religion, Morality

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• These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

  Marilynne Robinson

  People, Giving, Justice

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.98, Macmillan

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• And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Likes, Mets

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.

  Don Sparks

  Sports, Running, Integrity

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• Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Character, Arguing, Knows

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• Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

  John Currin

  Clever, Style, Trying

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• There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

  Pele

  Training, Get Better, Harder

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• No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

  Alexander Wang

  Brands

  "Alexander Wang: Fashion's Boy Wonder" by Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2011.

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• Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.

  Donald Glover

  Mad, Hustle, Doing You

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• The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Beautiful, Photography, Magic Moments

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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Golden, Twenties

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• The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

  Ina Garten

  Children, Flavor, Want

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Dream, Country, Heart

  "O'Connell Correspondence, Vol IV". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Letter to Bishop Doyle (N. 1860), 1831.

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• If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Children, Mean

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