Better Than You Quotes - Page 10

• You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Textbooks

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• Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Business, Cocky

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• You are aware that the sale of liquore is currently against the law." Edgar went on, "but I suppose that is why you enjoy it." "Everyone should have a hobby or two," Magnus said. "Mine just happen to include illegal trade, drinking and carousing. I've heard of worse." "We tend not to have time for hobbies." Shadowhunters. Always better than you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Drinking, Should Have, Law

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Bullying, People, Stronger

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• There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Sorrow, Progress

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Eye, Warrior

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader”, p.36, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• ...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Realizing

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

  Sidney Poitier

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• The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

  Rick Riordan

  Bigs, Reminders, Big Heads

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  You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

  Joe Biden

  Kids, Looks, Realizing

  “Joe Biden: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.

  Charlyne Yi

  Song, Writing, Piano

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

  Mark Cuban

  Ideas, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

  Al Pacino

  People, Upset, Littles

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not let anyone tell you what you can be. Do not let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough. Remember that nobody is better than you. Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time.

  Farrah Gray

  Smart, Not Good Enough, Legs

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• If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never...yes, never...sell yourself short.

  David J. Schwartz

  Motivational, Successful, Thinking

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• Manifesting the blessings is not really anything that is complicated or even difficult. Clear out what is not serving you or no longer actively being utilized. Give and share joyously. Receive graciously. Make amends. Adorn yourself first with inner beauty so the outer beauty may benefit from your best intentions. Contribute more than you take. Make each place you find yourself better than you found it. Be an abundant source of good tidings to and from God. In short, let go and let God.

  John Morton

  Letting Go, Blessing, Giving

  John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.162, Mandeville Press

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• No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings.

  Andrew Saul

  Feelings, World, Body

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

  Fritz Leiber

  Loneliness, People, Care

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.345, Open Road Media

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• In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

  David Brooks

  Character, Self, Views

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• Our system works. Over time, people will live better and better. We have a system that unleashes human potential, and now China has a system that unleashes human potential. We will have interruptions. We overshoot and undershoot sometimes, but your kids and grandkids will live better than you. Over time, we move ahead at a pretty damn rapid rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Kids, People

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• My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, Faces, Littles

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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  If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.

  Paul Walker

  Play, People, Get Better

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• At the end of the day, all you really have is your own sense of your artistic ability and I've always stuck with that my whole life. I guess there is always a bit of relief that I have and real joy of being able to engage other people who are talented, equally or better than you, and you can work with them.

  Sharlto Copley

  Real, Artistic Ability, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.

  Brian Jacques

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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