Something Better Quotes - Page 10

• That man is idle who can do something better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Laziness, Idle

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• You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.

  Eyedea

  Memories, Past, Heaven

  Song: Infrared Roses

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• When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Lovely, Ordinary

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• There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Giving, Purpose

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

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• If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

  Jane Wagner

  Thinking, Ideas, Survival

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• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession" by René J. Muller, (p. 62), 2013.

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• I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Morning, Sorry

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• When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, Responsibility, Complaining

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Money, Men, Long

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• To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

  Bruce Mau

  Order, Liberty, Needs

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• If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

  Trip Hawkins

  Waiting, Economy, Wanted

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• Pause and remember - Life is a process of surrendering. Make the decision to let go of what no longer serves you or makes you feel good. Know that you are worth more and something better will arrive once you create the space.

  Jennifer Young

  Letting Go, Space, Feel Good

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• Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.

  Paul Levinson

  Space, Civilization, Perspective

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• The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

  Jerry Pournelle

  Writing, Rose, Sitting

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• People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

  Jay Roach

  Austin, Littles, Surprise

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

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• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

  Parker Stevenson

  Mistake, Classic, Made

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• I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.

  Lee Maracle

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

  Peter M. Brant

  People, Trying, Needs

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• Every day, in some way, we're all being prepared for something better.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Way, Prepared

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• Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

  Roone Arledge

  Powerful, Play, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

  Donna Farhi

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

  Steven C. Hawthorne

  Missionary, Purpose, Christianity

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• I know something better is on the road for me.

  Maya Angelou

  Knows

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

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