Top 1200 Better Things To Do Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I learn from teaching. Having to break things down and explain them makes me a better dancer.

I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the association of truth with virtue, I am not sure if the world would be a better place if people believed more true things. But what is undeniable is that we cannot understand our own culture unless we recognise that it was formed, for good or bad, as a Christian culture. It's an illusion that we could somehow recover a human essence which is independent of the way it was created by culture.

I think every time you coach a certain team, when you leave that franchise, I think you continue to grow. You take a look at the things that you did, the things you wish you had done better. You analyze your strengths and your weaknesses, and then when you move to your next job, you continue to do the same thing.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

I've always loved horror, I've always loved collecting, I've always loved weird and macabre things, and I've always loved conventions. So what could be better than having your own Fear FestEviL where all those great and crazy things can be enjoyed by like-minded people under one pretty cool roof? Nothing!

Not only do I do things so much better than all of my fellow 'Divas,' I make being bad look so good.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don’t mind being a bit like you. I hope you don’t mind being a bit like me.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.

I now look at the things I could have done better and instead of beating myself up about it, since I can't turn back time, I try to remember to ask myself, "what was this experience sent to me to teach me?" I think specifically about what I will do better next time, then I actively look for moments to practice for the next time.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.

If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, 'If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'

Since it took up office, the Commission which I lead has pursued a clear policy: we need less interference from Brussels when it comes to the things that Member States can deal with better on their own. That is why we no longer regulate oil cans or showerheads, but concentrate instead on what we can do better together rather than alone - such as tackling the refugee crisis or securing our external borders. Only in that way can we make people feel that Europe makes a tangible difference.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

I feel better now after two children - I think I look better; I feel better.

All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20 or 100. One of the things a painting does is to make the room look better. It improves the wall that it's on. Which is much harder than it looks. And that's a good thing. And if one engages with a painting on that level, that's fine, that's great. After some time, familiarity, the other things that a painting does, the other layers, they just start to make themselves felt.

Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

I am glad that break-up with Priyank Sharma happened as it made me understand things better.

We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

To get better you have to step out of your comfort zone. You can't do the same things you've always done & improve.

I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.

One thing I'd like to do better personally is decompress. Obviously when things don't go your way, you'll be thinking of it all the time.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

For policemen to be honest about the fact that they may be fearful when they come into a certain situation, not understanding what's going to happen. The only way things will change and things will get better is if people are able to be honest without feeling like they're going to be offended, or they're going to offend someone else.

If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors. For television and theatre - well, for theater, there's some auditioning that has to happen, just for them to know that you can sing it, and how you'd take on the part. But for TV, things are getting a little better with, "Would you like to be a part of this?" But that's really for one - night things. It sounds like a pompous answer, if I say people are calling me to ask me to do things.

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

I should have got a better deal in my career, but everything has its time. You can't rush things, feel remorse or regret.

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If you find yourself loving any pleasure more than your prayers, any book better than the Bible, any house better than the house of the Lord, any table better than the Lord's table, any persons better than Christ, or any indulgence better than the hope of heaven – be alarmed.

I never take things for granted. I always look to help out me teammates, to win and be better.

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.