Better Than You Quotes - Page 6

• It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Girl, Winning, Worry

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• Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters.

  Donald Margulies

  Character, Objectivity, Two

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• The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Needs, Philosopher

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Advice, Listening, Important

  Jennifer Lopez (2014). “True Love”, p.28, Penguin

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• To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

  LouAnne Johnson

  Writing, Rejection, Risk

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• Self-righteousness is unavoidable. You can either be a self-righteous Pharisee where you think you are better than everyone else or you can be a self-righteous pagan who thinks you are better than the Pharisee. If you are a self-righteous person, I could become very self-righteous thinking that you're self-righteous and you think you're so good but I know you're bad. I know I'm bad so that makes me better than you.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, Self, Pharisees

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Fall, Writing, Heart

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• There's plenty of opportunity for everyone, so there's no reason to worry about somebody else's success, either saying you couldn't do this so she's better than you, or she's doing it so you can't. No, she's doing it so you can.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Opportunity, Worry, Reason

  "What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.salon.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Islands, Doe, Next

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• You don’t read, you don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Adventure, People, My Best Friend

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• If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

  Jason Behr

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fun

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• Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, “To You”

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• I am STILL better than you. Because I AM drug free, I AM alcohol free, and I’m straightedge.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Alcohol, Drug

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Fun, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.

  M. Ward

  Writing, Kind, Painting

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• Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Believe, Intelligent

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• Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

  Chandra Shekhar Azad

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fighting

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• Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

  Leif Garrett

  Believe, Thinking, Publicity

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• You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

  Bob Dylan

  Respect

  Song: To Ramona

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• There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

  Joseph Heller

  Disappointment, Envy, Achieve

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• There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, Class, America

  AFF Presidential Forum in Washington DC, March 14, 2007.

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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• The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.

  Tony Robbins

  Mean, Frustration, Brain

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Mean, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 27, 2017

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• I became a vegan because I'm better than you

  Thom Yorke

  Vegan

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