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.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
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.
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
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.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
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.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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.
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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.
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