Top 100 Quotes About Getting Better
#1. I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter.
Randy Couture
#2. It's all about getting better and controlling the things that you can control, which is getting better day to day.
Robbie Lawler
#3. Perhaps, with enough time in these walls, one could become resigned to things never getting better, or even changing all that much. Or maybe a person eventually lost hope that there was anything worth preserving at all.
Hugh Howey
#4. Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.
Goran Visnjic
#5. 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
#6. Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it's not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.
Lilit Marcus
#7. If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better ... or you're getting worse.
Tom Peters
#8. Westlemania is the Superbowl but each PPV is equally important. The big four (WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, SummerSlam and Survivor Series) are always important to me but the themed events have been getting better each year. Each event has its own aura around it so it's very difficult to choose.
John Cena
#9. 'Ray Donovan' is such a revelation to everybody who's working on it, and it's only getting better.
Steven Bauer
#10. Wow. Snubbed by a homeless guy. My night was getting better and better
Jenn Bennett
#11. I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.
Fred Astaire
#12. Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too.
Elizabeth Hurley
#13. I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.
Will Patton
#14. It is easier to be gay at this very moment than it was five minutes ago. It is just constantly getting better, and it's wonderful.
Guy Branum
#15. Since you know the means of getting better, in the name of God, make use of them. Do not take on anything beyond your strength, do not be anxious, do not take things too much to heart, go gently, do not work too long or too hard.
Vincent De Paul
#16. I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.
Michael W. Smith
#17. He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines, by assuring them, with a perfectly straight face, that life was getting better and better, thanks to scientific thinking.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
Alex Cox
#19. I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.
Justin Cole
#20. We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
Walter Russell Mead
#21. People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
Kara Swisher
#22. I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.
Vivian Campbell
#23. Modern programs must handle Unicode - Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.
Guido Van Rossum
#24. Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing.
Kendra Wilkinson
#25. My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.
Luke Bryan
#26. If you believe in what you're doing, you should just do it. You'll keep getting better.
Riki Lindhome
#27. If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.
Molly Ivins
#28. You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.
M. Night Shyamalan
#29. If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder.
Anne Lamott
#30. God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.
Steve Brown
#32. I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.
Cher Lloyd
#33. I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.
Neil Peart
#34. To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
Walt Disney
#35. No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!
Rob Dyrdek
#36. I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.
Johnny Ramone
#37. What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
Brady Anderson
#39. I never really worried about stats in the minor leagues. I was more concerned with getting better and bringing a positive attitude every day.
Matt Holliday
#40. With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
Yani Tseng
#41. If you're not interested in getting better, it's time for you to stop leading.
Patrick Lencioni
#42. Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they're the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.
Ray Dalio
#43. You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.
Jeffrey Lurie
#44. Are you okay?" someone asked.
"I'm fine," I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin.
"I have to admit, you're getting better at lying, Tess Embers," he said quietly. "However, I know you're not okay.
Embee
#45. People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.
Gretchen Rubin
#46. The Carousel of Progress was a physical representation of Walt's personal philosophy that people, despite their foibles, were basically decent, and that life was good in any era and would only keep getting better.
Jim Korkis
#47. I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
Cy Coleman
#48. Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
Lenny Kravitz
#49. Now everything is always getting better. Every morning when I wake up, I thank God that I'm not waking up in a hospital anymore and that I have the most supportive family and friends ever.
Amy Rankin
#50. A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.
Daniel Radcliffe
#52. Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.
Rocco DiSpirito
#54. I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
Troye Sivan
#55. You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.
Drew Brees
#56. I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.
Lenny Kravitz
#57. We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North
#58. Why does everything have to suck so bad? Even when you think it's getting better, it's not. Life's building up suckiness, getting ready to hit you again, at the worst possible moment.
Jessica Verdi
#59. It's been great getting better with you.
James Frey
#60. Life is about growing and improving and getting better.
Conor McGregor
#61. When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener ... where it is watered.
Ezra Taft Benson
#62. 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
#63. As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.
Mike Gordon
#64. They count that as your birthday
the day your mother gets up."
"Not the day you were born?"
Not the day you came out. They count the mother getting better as all part of the birth.
Barbara Kingsolver
#65. I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.
Dwyane Wade
#66. My advice to young people who want to act is just to do it as much as you can! Find friends who also want to do it and have readings of great plays in your apartment. You don't have to wait for someone else to tell you that you can do it. You can be getting better on your own all the time.
Sarah Steele
#68. I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.
Robbie Lawler
#69. I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
Samantha Power
#70. I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
Tim Pratt
#71. It's not about being bitter, it's about getting better
LL Cool J
#72. As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more
Billy Donovan
#73. My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
Marianne Williamson
#74. Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay at the top of their field for far longer than most people would think possible.
Geoff Colvin
#75. Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
Emile Coue
#76. I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.
Bela Fleck
#77. Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
Irving Kirsch
#78. The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
Robert Carlyle
#79. I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as fast as possible. From one film to the other, I'm getting better. I'm learning - that's my style.
Malgorzata Szumowska
#80. There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.
George Orwell
#81. 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
#82. Indeed, there were times when it was quite worrying that after hitting a certain age, you wouldn't hear from a lot of actresses anymore. But that's when women hit their stride and get a lot more interesting. You see that in roles for males but it's slowly getting better for women too.
Christine Bottomley
#83. The technology is getting better. There will be a day when you'll be able to hear any music you want, anywhere you are, on demand, in a quality that is as good as when it was made. Things are moving in that direction.
Rick Rubin
#85. The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
Ben Goldacre
#86. It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.
Julie Walters
#87. Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#88. If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.
Clayton Christensen
#89. I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
Atul Gawande
#90. Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.
Lauren Slater
#91. There is no point in competing with young talent ... I just concentrate on getting better each day.
Michael Caine
#92. While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
Gabrielle Giffords
#93. I'm going to try to keep getting better.
Tiger Woods
#94. It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
Julie Walters
#95. Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.
Bill Gates
#96. I'm just trying to do whatever is asked of me. I've been thrown into many different positions. Sometimes I'm on the left. Sometimes I'm in the middle. Sometimes I'm up top. So you always have to be prepared. I'm learning a lot so hopefully I can keep getting better and better.
Freddy Adu
#97. I like playing music. I don't always like the feeling of people looking at me. I don't think I'm, like, a natural performer, but I'm getting better.
Dan Bejar
#98. I have heard a lot of stories - we're putting this in for the monitors, we've got this other set of records. This is a relatively new field, but they're getting better. They're getting more resources from the companies. At some point the factories say, okay, this is here to stay.
Pietra Rivoli
#99. Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
Joan D. Chittister
#100. When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed
Ray Allen
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