Top 1200 Better Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.

If you give Brett Favre time to throw the ball and single coverage, you're making the offense that much better.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

My will is to always be better and better and better. I've got the will to want to be the best.

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

I cannot say yes to too many things. I am better off giving attention to one thing at a time.

First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

Now more than ever I am aware that a person's significant birthdays can either mark the passage of time, or they can mark changes they've made in their lives to reach their potential and become the person they were created to be. With each passing year, I want to make good choices that make me a better person, help me become a better leader, and make a positive impact on others.

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

Never rush through the stoke. Nervous or not, take your time, and the result is almost always better.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Every day in training you learn. I've been playing football for years, and I understand the game better with time.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

It's better to focus on one film rather than take up two or three films at the same time.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'

I don't think I was that bad when I was on the court. I felt like it could have just got better if I had more time on there.

Every time I manage Wales and you win, the feeling is better than I've ever had as a club manager.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

On these feature films there are people on the staff who can draw 100 times better then I can, and animate better then I can, and light better then I can, write comedy better then I can. I basically am in the middle of kind of a creative typhoon and I'm just kind of talking the film up on to the screen. Minute to minute, meeting by meeting, day by day.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

I'm a professional with very little time on my hands. I've got better things to be doing than buying a pint of milk.

Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

The Transportation Empowerment Act paves the way for better roads, easier commutes, and more family time.

It is time to show the whole world that America is back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before!

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

This whole idea of editing, not one time I can tell you, not one time has a producer ever asked me to say something I did not want to say. I will also say this about 'Drag Race' producers: I will stand by the show and the people there because they have changed so many people's lives for the better, and I'm one of them.

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

How do you know it won't be duels at dawn when you tell him you've accepted my proposal of marriage?" "Don't be ridiculous. He's not that hotheaded. Though I daresay he may try to...er...knock some sense into you. He and Jarret. And possibly Gabe." "Our bargain is looking better and better all the time," he said drily. "I get to fight the Sharpe men while you stand around pretending to care." He came close enough to whisper, "I will definitely require a few kisses of you if that comes to pass, minx." -Giles and Minerva

Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.