Something Better Quotes

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Meditation practice isnâ€™t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. Itâ€™s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is… — Pema Chodron
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history… — Chuck Palahniuk
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for… — Jack Canfield
The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on… — Jerry Seinfeld
When you regret something, what you arenâ€™t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, youâ€™re going to see why you didnâ€™t get the thing… — Bethenny Frankel
Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing… — Jonathan Ive
If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great. — Jonathan Ive
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… — Charles Ives
I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three… — Martina Hingis
When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone.… — Christian D. Larson
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself. — Ira Glass
If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better — John Carmack
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands… — J.R. Miller
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. — Douglas Coupland
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page… — Jonathan Franzen
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something… — Edsger Dijkstra
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do… — Jacques Barzun
Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of… — Hyrum W. Smith

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