Better Than You Quotes - Page 11

• Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, Expectations, Sides

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.336, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think it's too late for prayin, hold up, a voice spoke to me and it slowly started sayin' 'Bring your lifestyle to me I'll make it better. I'll make your life better than you can imagine or even dreamed of.' I see demons. So relax your soul let me take control. You go down with the devil. Now roam through the depths of hell, where the rest your homeboys dwell.

  Snoop Dogg

  Thinking, Voice, Soul

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• You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.

  Michael Bassey

  Wise, Powerful, People

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• Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.

  Paul Hawken

  Simple, People, Trying

  "The Ecology of Commerce". Book by Paul Hawken, 1993.

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• There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.

  Ann M. Martin

  Book, Rights, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.

  John Cena

  Two, People, Choices

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• I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.

  Paul Walker

  Basketball, Sports, Play

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

  Billy Connolly

  Hate, Glasses, People

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• I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Priceless

  "The best advice 'Shark Tank' investors have given entrepreneurs" by Laura Woods, www.businessinsider.com. January 20, 2017.

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• Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Dream, Able

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• I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

  Peter Morgan

  Giving, Work Out, Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Dad gave me two pieces of advice. One was, "No matter how good you think you are, there are people better than you." But he was an optimist too; his other advice: "Never worry about rejection. Every day is a new beginning."

  John Ritter

  Dad, New Beginnings, Thinking

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• Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready...and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Giving, Wish, Stories

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• The American people have worn out their patience being told by their so-called bettors that you don't know how to live your lives the right way. We need to arrange things for you so you can do things better than you would do yourself.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Live Your Life, Needs

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• America has a lot of problems, believe me. I know what the problems are even better than you do. They're deep problems. They're serious problems. We don't need more.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, America, Needs

  Source: fortune.com

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• When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.

  Phil Collins

  People, Cost, Machines

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Who knows better than you what it means to have a commander-in-chief who lived his entire life, who lived throughout the entire Cold War, and doesn't know what the nuclear triad is? It's absolutely astonishing. And so it's terrific to have Joe Dunford and you know, perhaps John Bolton and other people in positions of trust.

  Bret Stephens

  War, Mean, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You try to play the song better than you had before.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Play, Trying

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.

  Freeman Dyson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I'm so used to artists saying to me, "Listen, I'm going to have five pages done next week," and then three weeks later I'm phoning them, begging them for two pages. And Stuart [Immonen]is a guy who will promise you five pages and deliver six pages, and the six pages are even better than you could have ever imagined.

  Mark Millar

  Artist, Next Week, Two

  "Mark Millar On Empress, Star Wars Influences, And Why He's Doing More Female-led Comics". Interview with Joshua Yehl, www.ign.com. March 14, 2016.

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• If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

  Willa Cather

  Writing, Years, Perfect

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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• When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than you do. You can't play games with them. You have to be really focused and concentrated, and play at your best in every department. The writing staff has to be fantastic. Our director line-up has to be great. Everything has to be better and better. Your fans keep track of the details.

  Demian Bichir

  Writing, Responsibility, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Way, Internet, Creation

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book - APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. January 11, 2013.

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• Thinking that other people might be better than you is what makes you Canadian, not American.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, People, Might

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