- Life
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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
- Cumulative
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- Nov 07, 2020
A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man should be ever better than he seems.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?
- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020