Trying To Get Better Quotes

#1. I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

Russell Westbrook

#2. I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.

Zhu Zhu

#3. I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

Tim Tebow

#4. I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better.

Tiger Woods

#5. I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better,

Michael Jordan

#6. You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

Lucas Black

#7. For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'

Jenny Lewis

#8. I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.

Camilo Villegas

#9. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Tim Tebow

#10. 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

#11. Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Joey Santiago

#12. I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.

Geddy Lee

#13. I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

Mara Brock Akil

#14. I'm blessed, and I'm just trying to get better every day.

Terry Rozier

#15. I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.

Alex Morgan

#16. I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.

Robbie Lawler

#17. You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

Tony Romo

#18. I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.

Chaz Bundick

#19. One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's been a big priority of mine.

Evan Spiegel

#20. Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

Kurt Braunohler

#21. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

Zach Johnson

#22. I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

Zach Johnson

#23. Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

Hal Elrod

#24. I think in any industry, it is competitive. There are a certain number of slots out there and opportunities out there. So you need to make sure that you're always on the top of your toes, trying to get better.

Dominique Dawes

#25. The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

Cliff Martinez

#26. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

Elle Fanning

#27. I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

Kevin McKidd

#28. I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

Clive Owen

#29. I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

Bobby Abreu

#30. It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.

Richard Madden

#31. I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

Bob Balaban

#32. If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

Don Mattingly

#33. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.

Devon Michael

#34. The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

John Bingham

#35. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

Virginia Woolf

#36. Trying to get something for nothing?' - even mother nature abhors it.

Ufuoma Apoki

#37. I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

Scoot McNairy

#38. Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

Jackee Harry

#39. I just want to improve game to game and try to get better.

Colin Kaepernick

#40. It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

Josh McDermitt

#41. When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

Raekwon

#42. Do you think I'll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?

Stephenie Meyer

#43. The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

Raekwon

#44. The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Martina Hingis

#45. Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

Mike Shinoda

#46. I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing.

Luke Wilson

#47. I might go play the LPGA full-time and then, after I get better, go to the PGA full-time. Or just try to play both. It will be fun.

Michelle Wie

#48. We might as well get started. Help to pass the timey-wimey. Do you have to talk like children? What is it that makes you so ashamed of being a grown-up? Oh. The way you both look at me. I'm trying to think of a better word than dread.

Warrior Doctor

#49. 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

#50. A better way to get good feedback is to run a field experiment - that is, rather than trying to mimic the real world in a lab, take the lab mind-set into the real world. You're still running an experiment but the subjects don't necessarily know it, which means the feedback you'll glean is pure.

Anonymous

#51. Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#52. I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

Robbie Lawler

#53. I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

PJ Harvey

#54. We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

Guy Spier

#55. It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way.

Jennifer Beals

#56. I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.

Steve Purdy

#57. I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Clive Owen

#58. Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

Steve Spurrier

#59. Every day you try to get better.

Zakk Wylde

#60. If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to get me drunk," I said to Ranger.
"Not drunk," Ranger said. "Just relaxed and naked.

Janet Evanovich

#61. Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

Dylan O'Brien

#62. I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#63. For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.

Kelly Rowland

#64. Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

Evelyn Waugh

#65. You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

David Ortiz

#66. It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.

Sean Malto

#67. I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you." I shifted in my seat. "Dex ... " "And I'll keep trying," he quickly said, voice low and somber. "Until I get it right.

Karina Halle

#68. I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying desperately to get there.

Wil S. Hylton

#69. I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

Steve Coogan

#70. Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.

Josh Fox

#71. We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We're not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we're always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.

Ellen Page

#72. you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people

Patricia Volk

#73. When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.

Eknath Easwaran

#74. Shush!" said Ambrogio to the dog, "I advise you to hide, in case it is the horned one trying to get in. I know him a great deal better than you.

Anne Fortier

#75. It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

Shirley Henderson

#76. I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some-some doctrine gets subscribed to me.

George W. Bush

#77. Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

#78. I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like, "Which is better?" At least I was trying.

Billy Bob Thornton

#79. But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

Webb Simpson

#80. I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

Jennifer Lopez

#81. When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator

Peggy Noonan

#82. I almost said - trying to find some casual remark - 'I wonder sometimes what has become of the little McCoo girl, did she ever get better?' - but stopped in time lest she rejoin: 'I wonder sometimes what has become of the little Haze girl ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#83. Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

Ben Mendelsohn

#84. Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

Lisa Kleypas

#85. What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads ... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

Harlan Ellison

#86. We educated people make a great display of humility when we meet, trying to get the better of each other in unimportance. It is usually only a formality, of course, a polite mask for our feelings of superiority.

John Spurling

#87. I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

K'naan

#88. I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

#89. Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Charles Lamb

#90. even if high-IQ people do better than low-IQ people when first trying a task that's new to them, the relationship tends to get weaker and may eventually disappear completely as they work at the task and get better at it.

Geoff Colvin

#91. I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

Giancarlo Stanton

#92. Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

Anita Roddick

#93. So many of us get caught up into the race game that we forget that in the end we are just people trying to do better for ourselves and our families. My father use to have a saying, that in order to be great you have to do great things that change the world of people around you.

D.E. Rogers

#94. All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market's decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.

Larry Ellison

#95. From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.

Naturi Naughton

#96. We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied.

George Harrison

#97. That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Tamora Pierce

#98. In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Frank Ocean

#99. After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#100. Guys, we spend our whole lives trying to get pussy, so when pussy comes to us, it's like, "Whoa, this is amazing!" At 27, I thought nothing could be better than that, but at 35, I've come to understand the darker side of it.

Tucker Max