Get Better Quotes - Page 10

• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  Eddie Murphy

  Years, Political, Lasts

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• We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, America, Alive

  1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

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• The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!'

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fun, Talking, Car

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• How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

  Kent Beck

  Simplicity, Design, Forever

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• Things that don't get better, get worse.

  Ellen Stern

  Simple, Simple Living

  Ellen Sue Stern (1988). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam

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• If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

  Jason Behr

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fun

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• Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

  Lawrence Frank

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• I'm still learning. Hopefully I can keep getting better, and not stop where I am now.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Hopefully, Stills

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• I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Winning

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• There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Success, Stress, Labor Day

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• We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact.

  Tim Cook

  Technology, Energy, Updates

  "Google Maps App for iPhone Released With Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Transit Directions and Street View" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Technology, Discovery, Color

  "Discovery of Doom? Collider Stirs Debate" by Alan Boyle, September 8, 2008.

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• When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed

  Ray Allen

  Basketball, Nba, Half

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• He's been a top player for the last 10 years, and we all work on our swings, we all change things. We keep working and then we're trying to get better, and sometimes you get worse trying to get better. You've just got to give it some time, be patient for it to turn around, and when it does turn around, you feel like you can start winning again.

  Ernie Els

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Thinking, Complacent

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• People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society - by drugging the piss out of it.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Drug, Helping

  "Whirl of the words", www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2005.

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• That's just a stressful way to live - saying, 'OK who's doing great, who's doing better than me?' ... Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

  LaToya London

  Struggle, Cocky, Careers

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• That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.

  Russ Rose

  Sports, Volleyball, Player

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• I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Grateful, Hard Work, Long

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• I don't think I can adequately express my feelings about the car on national radio, but hopefully we'll get better and I'll be happier later on.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Thinking, Car, Feelings

  "Charlotte II: Dale Earnhardt Jr. race summary". www.motorsport.com. October 15, 2002.

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• As I see it, I'm just getting better and better as a rider - physically and mentally. I'm as motivated as I ever was. I enjoy it as much as I ever did. When you're a good rider on a good day, the bike doesn't rattle and bounce. You're smooth. Even if it's rough you can find a way to make the bike float.

  Cadel Evans

  Sports, Good Day, Way

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• I just came out of the gym from three hours this morning. I got five hours of sleep. That's it. Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

  Ray Lewis

  Morning, Sleep, Trying

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• Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

  Pat Conroy

  Reading, Writing, Ambition

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