Get Better Quotes - Page 17

• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

  Douglas Horton

  Gratitude, Past, Feel Good

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• Give yourself time to get better.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Giving

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• Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.

  Carolina Kluft

  Trying, Events, Medal

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

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• Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

  Paul Harvey

  Thinking, Tomorrow, Better Tomorrow

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• Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

  Troy Polamalu

  Opportunity, Should

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• It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.

  Bert McCracken

  Proud, Just Being, Surprise

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• I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

  David Zindell

  Dream, Agony, Joy

  "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.

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• People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

  Paul Tough

  School, College, People

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

  Jason Mraz

  Song

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• If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

  Don Mattingly

  Trying, Ifs

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• CEREMONY OF FLIES hits the road like a nitrous-fueled GTO...and then pulls the ultimate stunt of getting better. What starts as a deceptively simple hard-boiled noir story twists on itself and adds layers and grows stranger and before you know it, BAM - it's the end of the world and all you can do is hang on by your fingernails. This really, truly is one of the best novellas I've read in years.

  Lisa Morton

  Simple, Years, World

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• It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

  Jason Dohring

  Kids, Careers, Long

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• Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

  Jeff Raikes

  Lessons, Results, Teach

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• Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

  Rihanna

  Moving, Journey, Destination

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• You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

  Jonathan Carroll

  People, Who We Are, Knows

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• All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

  Michael Jordan

  Wanted

  Michael Jordan (2012). “Driven from Within”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• We’ve been married for more than eight years now and we’re still into it. I think you do fall in and out of love and you just keep going, and every time you go through a really difficult phase, you rediscover something new and it just gets better.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Fall, Thinking, Eight

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• Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

  John Wooden

  Champion, Complaining, Motivational Basketball

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• You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Push Yourself, Knows

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• The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, America, Growth

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• Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better at this game through practice. The game consists of a series of choices that have consequences. You can't stop the problems and choices from coming at you, so it's better to learn how to deal with them.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Practice, Games

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• Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Support, Modern

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.

  Andy Spade

  Ocean, Years, Cities

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