“Don't try to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”
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Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
“Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1993)
Eric Stanley on CBS News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYrWGivy5A
2011
“Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.”
August 2, 1995, p. 165
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)
“It is better to guide people than try to hammer them into a line.”
Morgase Trakand
(15 September 1992)
“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”
Source: The Crimson Crown
Variant: Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.