Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
Prevention is better than cure.
Never walk into a hospital crying. Have an attitude that you will make someone else’s life better.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it’s wonderful that she didn’t cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.
The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, ‘What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?’
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that’s always my focus.
My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
Life is short. Don’t do the same thing everyone else is doing – that’s such a herd mentality. And don’t do something that’s two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.
It is better to learn late than never.
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn’t do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.
The world is getting better, but not in a straight line.
There’s no better time than now to be who you are.
I always tell myself, ‘There are so many things you regret doing or eating, but you never regret a workout.’ I always feel better after a workout. I have more energy, and mentally, I’m in a better place.
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
Being a top performer – whether it’s in business or on the athletic field – requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.
There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
What’s happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That’s why we’re here.
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.
You don’t need a group of superstars, you need a team working together to bring you better results.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Fresh air and exercise. That’s all you need to stay slim and feel better about life.
More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
I just save my money, man. I don’t even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon’ be broke later on. I be savin’, I be chillin’. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I’ma keep it too.
