- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Quotes
On growth, progress and making things better.
These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't put the pressure on everybody else. I put the pressure on myself because I am that franchise guy. I am the guy that has to be the leader of the team, that has to get everybody better, make everybody better on my team.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people know how good I am playing basketball... All I do is just use it as motivation: keep getting better, keep doing the same stuff and doing it even better.
- Approximate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks were better for the environment than the oil based inks. So, I learned about the Epson digital printers to get the image I wanted.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020