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"As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go."
"My goal is always, how do you get better?"
"Do what you wanna do. Really follow your dreams. Fail as many times as you can because youll only get better."
"I am only about winning and getting better."
"You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year."
"I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music."
"The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?"
"I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think."
"Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis]."
"You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated."
"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."
"I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique."
"Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better."
"Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years."
"My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything."
"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."
"You don't have to be sick to get better! You don't have to have a bad attitude to get a better one."
"You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them."
"I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free."
"If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better."
