We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
Lowell Bergman: You'd better take a *good* look, because I'm getting two things: pissed off and curious.
Roy Lee: That thing had better fly, or you can kiss your chances of losing your virginity goodbye.
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.
I don't claim to be an expert on love. I'm just a woman who has experienced a lot of things, and I want to share and hopefully my sharing will help make your situation better, because that's the goal.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
People usually will remember people most, for the stupid things they did, than the impressionable ones. This somehow strangely, makes them feel better.
I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
Life Teaches You Several Things, It says 'Hi' & Gives You 'Good', It Says 'Hello' & Gives you 'Better', It says ''Wait" & Gives You "The Best
The only thing better than a happy Heart is a clear mind to keep it pumping. Cleanse yourself from within and you’re bound to win.
On Dreams Only one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.
Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.
