Better

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.

The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

If you give a party, you better give it right.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

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.

I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.

I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.

I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.

My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.

Bigger is always better.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

We are not into financial services, and we are not interested also because we find we are better in branded marketing enterprises.

We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

Death is easier than a wretched life, and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

In the future, the best retail sites will know you much better and show you things that are much more relevant.

Women are thought to be more social, more interested in relationships and connections, better at multi-tasking.

I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

I'm obsessed with eyeliner - the darker and kohl-ier, the better.

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.

Once I finish shooting a film, I usually sit on it to see how we can make it better.

If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

I think most people are interested in our origins, once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

You are doing better than you think you are.

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.

You write a lot of books, you hope you get better.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

Experience really does make you better, man.

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.

The way the press works, people don't like to review or talk about EPs. It's considered, 'Why don't you just wait for the record?' But for someone who's creating, and the audience, they can get material quicker. I almost feel like putting out a few songs every couple months might be better than putting out an album every year or two.

It's not hard for me to access a bad actor. That's always there. It's actually kind of a load off your mind because, the worse you do, the better it goes.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart.

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.

The worse the newspapers speak of the world, the better I feel.

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

I have a journal of everything I've ever climbed since 2005. For the entry about free soloing Half Dome, I put a frowny face and added some little notes about what I should have done better, and then underlined it. Turns out that is one of my biggest climbing achievements.

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

I will say this: when you take any substance, especially in baseball, it's half mental and half physical. If you take this glass of water and you say, 'I'm going to be a better baseball player,' then you probably will be.

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

My daughters think I am a terrible cook, but I try really hard. I would really like to be a better cook.

More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house, you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff, you need stuff you'll actually use.

There's a lot of evidence that shows that if we push as hard as we need to for net-zero emissions, we'll find ourselves with cities that are more secure, healthier, and have more economic opportunity - are frankly better cities to live in - than if we settle for the status quo.

Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.

I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Kids can really get better quickly. Here's another thing I would like to say: Kids should never be coached by their parents, ever. They should be as natural as possible.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

We can do better, and we must hold the politicians accountable to do better.

The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.

Our ideals are our better selves.

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

I'm happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.

The pedicure is beside the point - the rub is all I care about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing better, except maybe a scalp massage.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.

I was focusing on sax while at Berklee, but then I started to play Brazilian choro and Colombian music. I was doing more folkloric stuff on the clarinet because it works better. Finally, I realized I was working more on the clarinet than the saxophone, and I started to feel more comfortable on it.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

I always think I look better after a yoga class. It's the same as a massage. We look so amazing after a massage because we're relaxed.

I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.

Better to be wrong than be boring.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

I don't come from a position that I am better than everybody, I come from a position that I had a tough upbringing. And I don't always highlight it, because I just never wanted to be that person with another rags to riches story.

I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights come on because it's right now - there is no tomorrow.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

Much of Mr. Bush's 28 percent approval rating is born not of 'failed policies' - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students. The schools are controlling the access to the students.

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.

The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.

I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better.

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory, there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.