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We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#assume #becoming #been #better #efficient

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#also #better #businesses #corporations #customers

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

#art #better #better actor #come #end

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#attention #band #become #better #bigger

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right? ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#anything #better #buy #never #right

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dr #however #johnson #lazy #learned

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#better #faults #friend #having #i

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#better #else #neither #nor #nothing

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#get #less #more #neighbours #neither

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized