Getting Better And Better Quotes

#1. Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

Ben Bernanke

#2. I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better.

Jamila Wideman

#3. The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Florence Nightingale

#4. It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

Vijay Singh

#5. Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

Martin Luther

#6. I'm just getting older and better.

Neal Schon

#7. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

#8. Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

Susan Polis Schutz

#9. My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

Rick Perry

#10. Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.

Nicole Williams

#11. The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carol Moseley Braun

#12. I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

Andrew Bird

#13. I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

Mark Webber

#14. We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

Lou Holtz

#15. With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

Daniel Cormier

#16. It's about getting to a point in your life where you're ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself.

Jared Leto

#17. It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

Jean Chatzky

#18. So I drank every night after work, alone, up at my place and I had enough left for a day at the track on Saturday, and life was simple and without too much pain. Maybe without too much reason, but getting away from pain was reasonable enough.

Charles Bukowski

#19. I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

Sarah Dessen

#20. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. I still let myself be a fan of music and that motivates me to want to be better than certain people or just getting the same love. Nothing is new under the sun so you cant be afraid to take things from others and try to flip them and make them your own at the end of the day.

Kid Ink

#22. He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

Rutherford B. Hayes

#23. You, little girl, better be careful. You're dangerously close to getting me to fall for you, and I don't do relationship, I do girls. Call me if you're ever lonely.

Rachel Van Dyken

#24. The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks.

Joby Warrick

#25. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle

Ally Carter

#26. At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

Wadah Khanfar

#27. Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you are getting to know better every day, something is bound to happen.

Anne Lamott

#28. The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

Marco Brambilla

#29. It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.

Jayna Hefford

#30. I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.

Joel Plaskett

#31. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

Denis Johnson

#32. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

Art Pepper

#33. What I like that is getting our smartest and getting our best to infiltrate their [terrorist's] Internet, so that we know exactly where they're going, exactly where they're going to be. I like that better.

Donald Trump

#34. I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Joyce Brothers

#35. It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#36. I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse

Kenny Florian

#37. There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

Swami Vivekananda

#38. And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood.

Ernst Zundel

#39. The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been a war that was worse than the war of 1812, and worse than the Revolution; things were clearly not getting better and better.

Christine Jennings

#40. We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

Daniel Suarez

#41. Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.

Ernest Gaines

#42. As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

Virginia Woolf

#43. What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost...

Priya Basil

#44. You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

Andrew Wyeth

#45. I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

Tyler Perry

#46. The Rays are a team to be reckoned with. These guys are getting better and better each year.

Cliff Floyd

#47. The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.

Jill Lepore

#48. Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and I'm just having more fun. It's getting more and more fun with each role.

William Sadler

#49. It is almost a reconciliation to having my leg broken to contemplate the amount of reading I am going to do this summer. I am getting better fast and I am afraid I'll get well so soon I won't get to read enough.

David McCullough

#50. What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Kathleen Sebelius

#51. I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.

Philipp Meyer

#52. When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

Karin Slaughter

#53. Anyway, Phillip isn't like that. From what I can see, Phillip has good judgement and he genuinely cares about me. And those might be rare qualities in seventeen-year-old boys these days. Not that I'm an expert. Although I am getting better at it.

Melody Carlson

#54. Every day in every way I am getting better and better.*

Bill Bryson

#55. My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Kevin Hart

#56. But I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation.

Etgar Keret

#57. After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

Heather O'Reilly

#58. It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.

Johnny Damon

#59. I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

Terry Gilliam

#60. Physically a lot hadn't changed, but emotionally, I was getting better. Rather than letting the usual insecurities and stresses get to me, I had been staying prayed up.

Jessica N. Watkins

#61. I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Margot Kidder

#62. I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

Troy Glaus

#63. It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Terry Pratchett

#64. Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#65. My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

Royal Robbins

#66. Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.

Beau Willimon

#67. I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
And if I'm being honest, I'm getting there

The Wonder Years

#68. It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk ... much ... to go on to the next level.

Summer Phoenix

#69. The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

Steve Irwin

#70. Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as if he were an extension of me, an element of my own personality over which I had little control.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#71. You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.

Taylor Brown

#72. Delayed gratification helps you to do more, persistent and get better reward and greater profit.

Sunday Adelaja

#73. The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#74. At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.

Stephen Richards

#75. I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Fred Saberhagen

#76. I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

Corey Smith

#77. I have heard from people that the first year of marriage is the toughest. Brie [Bella] and I have definitely had our share of life difficulties with me having neck surgery and that sort of thing, but things are going really well and it is getting better after year one and that is phenomenal.

Daniel Bryan

#78. As my ability to observe my desired destiny got sharper and sharper, my cells began to reorganize themselves. I began to signal new genes in new ways, and then my body really started getting better faster. What

Joe Dispenza

#79. I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

Jon Lovitz

#80. I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.

Will Rogers

#81. The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

Ridley Pearson

#82. When it comes to helping another human being, you can treat the symptoms or you can treat the cause. Most people dabble in symptom management, and that is why most people don't seem to be getting better.

John Eldredge

#83. One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Eugene H. Peterson

#84. After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

Mickey Mantle

#85. Getting to know someone is like putting a never-ending puzzle together. We fit the smallest pieces first and we get to know ourselves better in the process.

Iain Reid

#86. The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in.

Kathryn Minshew

#87. If you look at revolutions, revolutions come typically when things are getting better and the people don't like the fact that they don't have more than they already have

Anonymous

#88. Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

Richard Branson

#89. You don't think the losing is ever going to end, but when it does end, you get to enjoy it and keep working with it and keep getting it better, and that's where we are.

Scott Brooks

#90. The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.

Susane Colasanti

#91. I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.

Bill Burr

#92. If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.

Lydia Ko

#93. I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

Webb Simpson

#94. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

C.S. Lewis

#95. I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

Cynthia Nixon

#96. I have to do a better job of minimizing the damage in that inning and getting us back in there with the lead still.

Clay Buchholz

#97. I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.

Jojo Moyes

#98. I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

Maeve Binchy

#99. I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

Lionel Hampton

#100. Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)

Rachel Naomi Remen