Better Quotes

There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

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.

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.