Get Better Quotes - Page 35

• The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been a war that was worse than the war of 1812, and worse than the Revolution; things were clearly not getting better and better.

  Christine Jennings

  War, People, Support

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to social progress. Progress is work. People need to build things and sacrifice and have a harder life for things to get better. On its own, I don't think even the most brilliant critique stimulates that kind of effort as well as an appealing vision of the future.

  Christine Jennings

  Moving, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is easier to be gay at this very moment than it was five minutes ago. It is just constantly getting better, and it's wonderful.

  Guy Branum

  Gay, Wonderful, Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

  Lennox Lewis

  Wine, Age, Fine

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

  Wayne Dyer

  Order, People, Energy

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.awaken.com. October 22, 2012.

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• I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mean, Thinking, Agents

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We're not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we're always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.

  Ellen Page

  Jobs, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.

  Teju Cole

  America, People, Hopeful

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.

  Dan Bejar

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.

  Chaz Bundick

  Song, Always Trying, Sound

  "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I have heard a lot of stories - we're putting this in for the monitors, we've got this other set of records. This is a relatively new field, but they're getting better. They're getting more resources from the companies. At some point the factories say, okay, this is here to stay.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Stories, Records, Fields

  Source: content.time.com

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• I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Responsibility, Practice, Musician

  "Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature". Interview with Alex Frank, pitchfork.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

  Britta Phillips

  Thinking, Taste In Music, Late

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.

  Kyle Parker

  Jobs, Play, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to be a part of it, if just in spirit and Don's desire for it to be a good film and for me to be happy with it. When I first saw it I was very impressed, and it gets better with repeat viewings.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Sublime, Desire, Saws

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm catching up. I'm satisfied with the show. I think I want to get better and better and keep building. It took a while to figure out how to do it. I didn't know how it was gonna go. I was just like, "I better book a show and just see what happens."

  Justin Vernon

  Book, Thinking, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old.

  Missi Pyle

  Teacher, New York, Voice

  Source: www.elle.com

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• At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  The End Of The Day, Quality, Saving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Thinking, Choices

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.

  Brian Henson

  Blessing, Puppets, Littles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

  Tyler Perry

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

  Gene Perret

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wine

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• Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.

  Waziyatawin

  Lying, Believe, Technology

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• People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

  Jill Konrath

  People, Goal, Focus

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• There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system... Distort the figures

  Brian L. Joiner

  Risk, Three, Way

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