“My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Variant: you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be
“At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.”
Referring to George Bernard Shaw in While Rome Burns (1934).
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