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• Do what you wanna do. Really follow your dreams. Fail as many times as you can because youll only get better.

  Orny Adams

  Dream, Failing, Follow Your Dreams

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• Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Honest Questions with Penn Jillette". "The Glenn Beck Program", transcripts.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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• When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

  Larry Bird

  Hard Work, Player, Teammate

  "A Bird on the Bench is Worth 12,252 In Roberts Stadium Seats". The Evansville Courier, October 18, 1997.

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• I'm blessed, and I'm just trying to get better every day.

  Terry Rozier

  Blessed, Trying

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

  Howard Zinn

  Clever, Law, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.516, Routledge

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• The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Faster

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• First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

  Steve Young

  Football, Thinking, Games

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• Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

  Octavia Butler

  War, People, Life Is

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.100, Open Road Media

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• Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

  Bob Black

  Anarchy, Minus, Marxism

  "Anarchy after Leftism". Book by Bob Black, 1997.

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• Why don't we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn't get better than home, now does it?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Home, Doe, Way

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• I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.

  Dave Bautista

  People, Advice, Brain

  Source: collider.com

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• Most people get better when they face competition.

  Joel Klein

  People, Competition, Faces

  "Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.

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• I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

  Judith Hill

  Rooms, Sound, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Doubt, Levels, Territory

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing On U.S Foreign Policy in Iraq, October 19, 2005.

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• The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Wise, Baby, Race

  Ellen Gilchrist (2008). “A Dangerous Age: A Novel”, p.11, Algonquin Books

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• You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.

  Tim Finchem

  Want, Looks, Sometimes

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• We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Strong, Flow, Return

  "Citadel Boss Won't Be Hedging On Day Job". Chicago Tribune, March 2006.

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• So let God know what you're doing just by doing it - or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good - because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.

  Ysabella Brave

  Letting Go, Men, Imperfection

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Games, Perfect, Stuff

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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• There's a point in everyone's career where they're not going to be playing as well as they should be. You just have to keep you confidence and not hang your head and realize that you're going to figure it out and that you're going to get better and that you're going to learn. Learn from all your mistakes.

  Carson Palmer

  Mistake, Careers, Realizing

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• You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.

  Tony Romo

  Fun, Hard Work, Passion

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• It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

  Tony Romo

  Team, Winning, Games

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• I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this league and in sports in general.

  Tony Romo

  Sports, Thinking, Long

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• I would have loved to have had the start that Tom Brady did, won a couple of Super Bowls early, but I wasn't good enough at the time. I have to get better. You start to understand that all the talk and noise really don't matter. Every quarterback goes through the same thing. You have to keep getting better; your team will keep getting better—and you'll have a chance.

  Tony Romo

  Couple, Team, Noise

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• You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

  Tony Romo

  Trying, One Day, Chance

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