Frank Drake Quotes

I don't think it's about topping your last; I think it's truly about just doing your best. That's what I continue to do throughout my career.

My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way?

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.

If you think you've stopped learning, you're going to get lapped.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

Actually to be a champion your goal is to be a little bit better each day, making sure that every day is an opportunity to be at your best.

We need to look at what Europe is doing to get better and try to get better ourselves. We need to make some changes and that can only be good for the game. Tolstoy once said, 'Everybody wants to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.' So we all have to change our thinking and focus on getting our kids better.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.