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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 Aug 01, 2026
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
- Imperfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
- Financial System
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- Nov 07, 2020
What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globally. There are a lot of countries that really don't trust their banks or their currency, and bitcoin is an alternative.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not an educator and I'm not a journalist. I am a comedian. But I do truly believe that the point of comedy is to make the world around one better.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing better than getting to just dig in and seriously play a video game for a six-hour flight from New York to L.A.
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- Nov 07, 2020