It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
Scott Westerfeld
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COREY TAYLOR And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
SCOTT WESTERFELD Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"
"Fragile?" Volger looked ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I kissed him once," she whispered.
"Well done. What did he do?"
"Um..." Deryn sighed. "He ...
SCOTT WESTERFELD What if destiny doesn't care?
SCOTT WESTERFELD Acting like you are better than someone else does not make you a leader.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's l...
J. R. MARTINEZ If that intensity on the practice court increased, it would make her better, and more than anything,...
KURT GREENE I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than ev...
MANDY MOORE It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
PHIL MCGRAW Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to ...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Lace: "Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?"
Cal: "Um, mayb...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
WILLIAM SAROYAN Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can ...
CARLOS WALLACE Be better than your self, not someone else.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN We have more than enough land. It's better off to let someone else use it.
BILL MCDONALD Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
WILLIAM SAROYAN But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it.
And next year someone...
MELINA MARCHETTA It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
DR. PHIL It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.
FENNEL HUDSON Self-esteem requires being better than someone else. Self-value requires being better than yourself.
S.M. COLEY Don't try to be better than someone else. Just try to be better than you were the day before
GRANT WALKER A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said...
ROBIN WASSERMAN If someone hurts you, take a moment for the pain, learn the lesson from it and make your life better...
ROXE I don't believe in giving private properties to someone else for private use to make money off of it...
MAXINE WATERS I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ...
ASHISH KUMAR Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Lik...
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SCOTT WESTERFELD Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.
RENEE OLSTEAD It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
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KEN VENTURI I know my skating is my strength, but a small guy like me has to be much better than everyone else. ...
AARON GAGNON If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.
LAUREN MILLER Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
THEODOR ADORNO Everyone has the power to make someone else happy, some do it by entering the room while others do i...
RANA MAGDY Watch for someone else to screw up, and then quietly point it out to everyone else,
IAN ROSENBERGER Do things not to do better than someone else. Do things to do your best.
LORRIN L. LEE Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that ev...
NORA EPHRON ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
CAITLYN JENNER Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier...
VIVIEN LEIGH Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
SCOTT WESTERFELD And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?'
Sure. I had to see it, you know...
SCOTT WESTERFELD This is the ultimate team game, but I make everyone else on my team better by making myself better.
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MARISSA MEYER Believe in yourself for nobody else can understand you better than you do.....
PRABHA To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing
RAYMOND WILLIAMS I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyo...
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MARISSA MEYER Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.
RICHARD SIKEN It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yoursel...
SOURCE UNKNOWN You mean so much to me. When someone wears my number, I think it represents our whole team. My teamm...
DEE BROWN I believe if you act with people who are better than you, it's only going to make you better.
DREW FULLER Putting a tiger in a lions den doesnt make it any less dangerous
BRANDON BROCK Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day...
CLINTON KELLY I take all the stress on myself so everyone else can work without stress.
CHANDA KOCHHAR I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and th...
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EDWARD HERRMANN Bubbly is bogus.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuf...
SCOTT WESTERFELD Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?"
"Poisoned pean...
SCOTT WESTERFELD We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY I feel more of a kindred bond with the men people compare me to than the women. If someone says Bon ...
CHANTAL CLARET You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
THOMAS P. O'NEILL You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
THOMAS P. O'NEILL Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sur...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it...
CAMERON DALLAS There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.
BANKSY I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone els...
STEPHANIE PERKINS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF ALWAYS; FOR NO ONE ELSE CAN EVER DO THAT FOR YOU BETTER THAN YOURSELF
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
BRETT HULL I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you r...
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ALLISON COMITO You cannot feel such a happiness by things happening in your life but doing something successfully i...
NISHI DE SILVA One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else c...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS It depends on what fit is better. Scott is willing to wait. If all else is equal and Seattle is stil...
JOE URBON Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every s...
FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier tod...
BRET TUETKEN We gave them Clovis and we got Edison in Division I. Clovis West is really tough; they're so much be...
TIM AMUNDSEN I wanted to make it meaningful. It's empowering to think of someone else.
JOEY CHEEK There's no one in the West even close to the Spurs. They're so much better than anybody else.
CHARLES BARKLEY He can be the Barry Bonds of this league. He's dominant and he can make everyone else better. They w...
AL GALLAGHER Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.
EVA BRAUN If someone holds by mistake a piece of hope, there is always someone else to make it disappear.
MARIANA FULGER We spent time listening to students to see what they wanted to use. It's pretty much what makes us d...
JOSH WEINER It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
BETTY FRIEDAN theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's ...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS Society tells us that we all need to win. That's how we make ourselves better. But when you get righ...
DAVID BOUDOLF To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
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SCOTT ADAMS Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
SCOTT ADAMS There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS A lot of people want the crown, but they're not willing to bleed for it.
SCOTT HAZE The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
SCOTT TUROW I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
L'WREN SCOTT The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most ico...
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