Better
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Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better — because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
You get more diversity and creativity in your problem solving, and you end up having a much better and more representative approach to solving the challenges faced by the population you serve.
If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair'. But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.
When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
