The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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.
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.
They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
