Browsing Topic Best Better Than You Quotes

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That’s why it’s important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

If you come from a place of love, and you’re not saying, ‘I’m better than you,’ that’s one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It’s almost like laughing with each other.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

After you have a big game, you can’t just say, ‘That’s it, I’ve arrived,’ by any means. I’m always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that’s important.

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.

If you don’t realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don’t give proper respects for others’ talents.

If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like ‘I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don’t know’. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won’t be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too.

Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don’t think you can do that.

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

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.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that’s important.

Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in his manner and consciousness, no thought of comparison. His attitude was not: ‘I can do it better than you,’ but simply: ‘I can do it.’ What he meant by doing was doing superlatively.

I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it’s just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

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.’

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.

This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people – we tell our kids – that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores.

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.

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

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.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It’s very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it’s somebody else’s job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you’re all about.

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

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

You’re better than no one and no one is better than you.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.

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.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

As a good player in the inner city, you’re always hearing people saying that you’re better than you really are and that you don’t have to do things like everybody else.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.