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When you're just starting out in the TV business, you don't know anything at all, and you think you're doing a better job than everyone else around you, and you just sort of presume that you're not getting the credit you deserve. And then when you start to get better, the pressure is extraordinary, and then you start to second-guess everything you do, and when people start looking to you for answers, for insight and for analysis and guidance, you start to wonder if you are the right person - even when you have all the information.

When you're younger, it's about 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed

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.

Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of.

Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?

"Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?" I didn't believe it, because I'm so contrarian and suspicious of everything. And then to find that it's kind of true is nice.

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

Wrestlers, you don't just get better from wrestling live. To improve technique, you have to learn it, then drill it. Drilling is key!

With each movie I get better and I'm able to tell incredible stories that move people into motion.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.

With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

You always want to be a little in over your head and be challenged to get better.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

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 can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

You don't have to be sick to get better.

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.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

You only get better by playing.

You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.

You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life.

Your customers get better when you do.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place.

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.

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.

You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

Get better, not bitter.

You've got to feel better and then things get better.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

Don't get bitter and discouraged because most people don't believe in you; instead, get better with believing in yourself in doubtful times.