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Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.

Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map.

People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society - by drugging the piss out of it.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.

Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better.

Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

Songs are snapshots of what you’re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief.  I’m satisfied with my progress as a writer and a human being, and I know I’m going to get better at both.  There will be times when I’ll feel like I’m not improving, and I’ll get through that.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Suarez will improve and he will get better.

Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.

Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Shulamit Ran, Melinda Wagner, Jennifer Higdon, and Caroline Shaw. When Marin Alsop was asked what it felt like to conduct the Last Night of the Proms, she said, "I am exceedingly proud to be 'the first' but I am also a bit shocked that there can still be firsts for women in 2013!

That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things will steadily get better and better and better until they're great. It is fits and starts. It is backward and forward.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most of the reviewing. It's kind of devastating.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.