Something Better Quotes - Page 12

• Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'

  Jack Canfield

  Events, Looks, Benefits

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• The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Doing You, Television, Potato Chips

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• When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Regret, Someday, Wanted

  Bethenny Frankel (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Goal, Trying

  The Globe and Mail, January 2007.

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• If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

  Jonathan Ive

  Missing, Trying, Possibility

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• When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Games, People

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

  Amy Harmon

  Life, Rocks, Wind

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• Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Passion, Tyrants

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1694, Penguin

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• Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a few songs which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men. But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

  Jim Henson

  People, Done, Film

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.39, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• What makes something better is connection.

  Brené Brown

  Connections

  "Choosing to sit in the dark" by Kelly Bartlett, attachmentparenting.org. August 13, 2014.

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• As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Men, Justice, Liberty

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• We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cute, Children, Destiny

  "Keeping Scientology Working". Scientology Policy Letter, February 07, 1965.

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• The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

  Charles Kettering

  Fun, Trying, Whole

  "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 12), 1971.

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• If you're like most people, you've always wanted something better for your life - it's really how we are designed - we're supposed to want improvement, and we're designed to climb upward. But most people stop at that - the WANT. They rarely take any action that actually begins moving their dreams into true reality!

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 15, 2011

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• We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  War, Learning, Mean

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• The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.

  Jim Stanford

  Fall, Order, Challenges

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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• People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Thinking, Air, People

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• I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.

  Joe Hahn

  Thinking, People, Battle

  "Octavia Spencer Talks RED BAND SOCIETY, Her Character’s Journey in Season 1, Favorite Scenes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

  Michael Shannon

  Humility, Thinking, Survival

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

  Tyler Perry

  Past, Use, Your Past

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• When you doubt yourself you create something better.

  Ray Toro

  Doubt, Mcr

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• And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new--perhaps something better--into this world...We are each an Eve.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Daughter, Men, Blood

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Play

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, archive.nytimes.com. 1989.

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