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Better Quotes

On growth, progress and making things better.

These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Quotes by Peter Medawar

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

Quotes by Peter Mullan

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Quotes by Peter Marshall

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Quotes by Peter Marshall

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

Quotes by Peter M. Brant

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Quotes by Peter MacKay

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

Quotes by Peter Mandelson

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

Quotes by Peter Jurasik

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Quotes by Peter L. Berger

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn...

Quotes by Peter Landesman

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they...

Quotes by Peter Lewis Allen

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

Quotes by Peter Jackson

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

Quotes by Peter Gay

To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.

Quotes by Peter Falk

I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

Quotes by Peter Gabriel

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

Quotes by Peter Davison

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Quotes by Peter Doig

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

Quotes by Peter Blair Henry

Frequently Asked Questions

What different ideas about "better" appear on this page?
The quotes touch on writing something "for better or for worse," a technical point about security traffic getting "better and better," and the simple observation that "two people can work on a problem better than one."
Is there a quote about collaboration?
Yes: "Two people can work on a problem better than one," a concise statement in favor of teamwork. For more on personal development, see Growth.
Does this page touch on writing or creative projects?
Yes, one references putting a copy of "A Christmas Carol" on a desk before beginning to write something described as being, "for better or for worse," a personal creative work.
Is there a more technical or security-focused quote here?
Yes: "The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels," a specific observation about technology and security. For more on aiming higher, see Aspiration.
Does this page connect "better" to bigger personal change?
Indirectly - one quote about outlines and treatments notes the difficulty of turning ideas on paper into "something better," touching on the challenge of improving on your own plans. For more on transformation and looking ahead positively, see Change or Hope.

Continue with our Change quotes on transformation or Hope quotes for a more optimistic outlook.