Get Better famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?
-- A.M. Homes -
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.
-- Aaron Swartz -
I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
-- Adrian Lyne -
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
-- Aimee Mullins -
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
-- Al Yankovic -
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
-- Alan Furst -
We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.
-- Alan Vega -
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
-- Albert Ellis -
Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.
-- Alexander Gustafsson -
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
-- Ali Smith -
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
-- Allen Iverson -
It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.
-- Amanda Schull -
I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?
-- Amy Schumer -
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
-- Amy Tan -
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
-- Andy Behrman -
Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.
-- Andy Partridge -
I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.
-- Angela Bettis -
As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.
-- Angela Ruggiero -
And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.
-- Anthony Burgess -
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
There's always tomorrow and it always gets better.
-- Ariana Grande -
The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life.
-- Benson Henderson -
It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.
-- Bert McCracken -
At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
-- Bev Perdue -
I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.
-- Blake Griffin -
Every day you either get better or you get worse. You never stay the same.
-- Bo Schembechler -
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
-- Bob Balaban -
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.
-- Bob Black -
When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming.
-- Bob Proctor -
Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
-- Bobby Flay -
I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.
-- Bobby Jones -
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.
-- Brad Garrett -
I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.
-- Bradley Cooper -
Mmmm! Lunch and no clean up!! Can life get better? I submit that it CANNOT!!
-- Brian Regan -
Your life only gets better when you get better.
-- Brian Tracy -
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
-- Brian Tracy -
There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
-- Brian Tracy -
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.
-- Buck Brannaman -
If hearts really did break, every time we fell from love, I’d be able to offer you confetti by now. But hearts don’t break y’all, they bruise and get better.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
-- C. S. Lewis -
As I see it, I'm just getting better and better as a rider - physically and mentally. I'm as motivated as I ever was. I enjoy it as much as I ever did. When you're a good rider on a good day, the bike doesn't rattle and bounce. You're smooth. Even if it's rough you can find a way to make the bike float.
-- Cadel Evans -
You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.
-- Calvin Johnson -
Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
-- Cameron Diaz -
My ***** is definitely higher than it was when I was 20. This is the thing that people don't understand - take care of your body [and it will] get better! It gets better as I get older.
-- Cameron Diaz -
No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
-- Carol S. Dweck -
Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event
-- Carolina Kluft -
There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
-- Carrie Brownstein -
There's a point in everyone's career where they're not going to be playing as well as they should be. You just have to keep you confidence and not hang your head and realize that you're going to figure it out and that you're going to get better and that you're going to learn. Learn from all your mistakes.
-- Carson Palmer -
I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative.
-- Channing Tatum -
I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving.
-- Chase Utley -
Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!
-- Chris Colfer -
As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those targeted by this culture of hate will become increasingly difficult. Rational debate will prove useless.
-- Chris Hedges -
We showed why road games have been tough for us throughout this year. That's where we've got to get better. It's a learning experience.
-- Chris Paul -
We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
-- Christopher McDougall -
In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.
-- Christopher Walken -
There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.
-- Chuck Todd -
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
-- Clive Owen -
You have to be ill if you want to get better.
-- Colin Firth -
I just want to improve game to game and try to get better.
-- Colin Kaepernick -
I don't feel negative emotions. I feel calm, composed and ready. And as it goes on I get better at it. By the time the fight is on, I don't feel any emotions at all.
-- Conor McGregor -
I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
-- Cy Coleman -
I am only about winning and getting better.
-- Daley Thompson -
Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
-- Damian McGinty -
I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
-- Dane Cook -
I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.
-- Daniel Johns -
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
-- David Crabb -
I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.
-- David Duchovny -
Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.
-- David Karp -
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.
-- David Levithan -
All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better.
-- David Lynch -
Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.
-- David Lynch -
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better
-- David Miliband -
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
-- David Nicholls -
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
-- David Ortiz -
If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
-- David Viscott -
It may get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better.
-- Debby Ryan -
Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.
-- Deborah Levy -
I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.
-- Demi Moore -
I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.
-- Derek Jacobi -
You've got one job, and that is to get better.
-- Derrick Rose -
All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.
-- Derrick Rose -
Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.
-- Desmond Dekker -
It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!
-- Diamond D -
If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.
-- Don Mattingly