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  • Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

    People   Trying   Looks  
    "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix: A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, Cornell University Press, February 25, 1852 (p. 152), 1980.
  • You are aware that the sale of liquore is currently against the law." Edgar went on, "but I suppose that is why you enjoy it." "Everyone should have a hobby or two," Magnus said. "Mine just happen to include illegal trade, drinking and carousing. I've heard of worse." "We tend not to have time for hobbies." Shadowhunters. Always better than you.

    Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
  • You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.

    Wise   Powerful   People  
  • Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

    Islands   Doe   Next  
  • I can spend your money better than you can.

  • If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

    Running   Children   Mean  
  • It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

    Fun   Wander   Walks  
    Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.
  • The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

  • Thinking that other people might be better than you is what makes you Canadian, not American.

    Thinking   People   Might  
  • Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

    Writing   Cake   Cooking  
    Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.5, Harper Collins
  • You don’t read, you don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.

  • Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

    Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
  • Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

    Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press
  • When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.

    Two   People   Choices  
  • The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  • You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

    Men   Effort   Arrogance  
    Ludvig von Mises' letter to Ayn Rand praising Atlas Shrugged (January 23, 1958) as quoted in Jorg Guido Hulsmann "Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism", September 4, 2007.
  • Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.

    Song   Writing   Piano  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success.

  • If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

  • A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.

  • Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.

    Kids   Next Day   One Day  
  • I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’...

    "The Prideful, Arrogant President of Chick-fil-A" by Jesse Bering, www.slate.com. August 6, 2012.
  • Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

    Feelings   Trying   Done  
    Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.10, Pan Macmillan
  • As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

  • The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.

    Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.310, Simon and Schuster
  • Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

  • If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.

    David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.97, Profile Books
  • Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

  • Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

  • Who knows better than you what it means to have a commander-in-chief who lived his entire life, who lived throughout the entire Cold War, and doesn't know what the nuclear triad is? It's absolutely astonishing. And so it's terrific to have Joe Dunford and you know, perhaps John Bolton and other people in positions of trust.

    War   Mean   People  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
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