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• It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

  Oliver Kahn

  Football, Fun, Men

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.

  Robert Munsch

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The crazy thing is that practical solutions exist. We don't need to perpetuate these problems. I think our hardest job is to convey a sense of optimism, show how things can get better, and get people to invest in solutions.

  Mark Powell

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

  Andrew Saul

  Want, Changing Your Life, Ifs

  Andrew Saul, Ph.D. (2009). “Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.437, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You always want to be a little in over your head and be challenged to get better.

  Taylor Ho Bynum

  Over You, Want, Littles

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• As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?

  Brett Dennen

  Writing, Heart, Eye

  Source: www.tntechoracle.com

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• I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.

  George Deukmejian

  Jobs, Opportunity, California

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• Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.

  Warren Gatland

  Player, Games, Two

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.

  Arian Foster

  Athlete, Thinking, Differences

  "MJD and Arian Foster Talk “Call of Duty,” Twitter, and Fantasy Football". Interview with Jose Martinez, www.complex.com. February 3, 2011.

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• I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Years, Fool

  Cranky Critic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Passion, Creating Things, Stopping

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• People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Progress, Growing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Views, Fantastic, Point Of View

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, People, Easy

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I'm getting better at it everyday.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Everyday

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• So I hope to stretch my acting skills. I got to a point in my dancing where I felt like I did so much hard work and I achieved a lot of great things, and I wanted to try something else and put that same kind of commitment that I did into my dancing into something that I was also passionate about. I had so many opportunities with my dance and now I'm just excited to get better as an actress.

  Julianne Hough

  Commitment, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Julianne Hough & Diego Boneta Interview, Rock of Ages". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• We know there are a lot of good secondaries out there. We are just trying to focus on what we can do to get better. We've got some new, young guys coming in and we are trying to catch them up to speed. We are trying to make sure that we have depth, making sure the guys behind us know what is going on. We are going to keep pushing each other to raise the standard for our secondary.

  Eric Berry

  Focus, Guy, Trying

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.

  Anna Friel

  Children, Worry, Wish

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Interview with Sarah James, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

  John Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Educational, Skills

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• Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

  Ted Williams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

  Richard Carlson

  Inspirational, Stress, Relaxation

  Richard Carlson (2016). “You Can Be Happy No Matter What”, p.161, Mango Media Inc.

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• Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

  Sting

  Crazy, Men, Congregation

  Sting (2011). “Sting - Easy Piano Collection (Songbook)”, p.9, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

  Dan O'Brien

  Rocks, Rolling, Momentum

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• Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

  Spencer Johnson

  Inspiration

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• I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

  Conrad Hall

  Thinking, People, Zenith

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