"We're excited about who's coming, because we know they will make us better, " Davis said.
At the heart of the quantified self-movement lies a very simple idea: metrics make us better.
The theory the country is about to test is that chains will make us better and more efficient.
We associate this principle with health care professionals, and rightly so: We'd like our physicians to make us better.
Our greatest growth will come from those times we choose to overcome the adversity and allow our trials to make us better.
Being compassionate will probably make us better, more effective people.
The deadly turret and giant, electrified chess board West encounters are perfect WWW fodder but should have been better primed with cut scenes to make us better feel the threat.
Like Jane McGonigal, whose first book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, will be published by The Penguin Press in January.
We want to reduce our gasoline consumption by 20 percent over the next 10 years, which will not only help our national security, it will make us better stewards of the environment.
Why do models make us better thinkers?
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And they also know that I'm going to be open and honest with them about the highs, the lows, the joys, the sorrows, but they also know that it all ends in praise, and that at the end of the day I have to go through this, we have to go through this in order to make us better, and in order to get to the next level.
And games are about innovation as well as competitions that make us perform better.
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Nobody is talking in a way to give us confidence and make us feel better.
These passages seem very real and not manufactured to make us feel better.
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It is a term my middle-class tribe uses disparagingly to make us feel better about being educated, but comparatively poor.
That more money will always make us feel better.
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As for plastic surgery, no doubt it can make us feel better for looking better, but it's hardly essential--much like a meal at a fancy restaurant or a trip to the south of France.
According to a recent report in the Harvard Health Letter, simple adjustments in the viewing angle can make us feel better as we spend hours reading e-books and working on our devices.
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With more ways to share in public space, the people around us can not only help us make better places, they can help us become our best selves.
Not that a little self-criticism is all bad: It can be a reality check and may fire us up to perform better (which can make us more successful) or strive to be better people (which makes us happier).
He could never do enough for us, he was always there to make things better for us and to take care of us in any way he could.
And then instead of showing us how they planned to make it better, unbelievably, they told us that they planned to make it worse.
Let us make better decisions so we can be better prepared for the next Irene.
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It is this cumulative knowledge, which our feelings summarize for us, that allows us make better predictions.
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They help us make better decisions and adopt more effective strategies.
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This summer, when we openly publish our software detection code, you can take what you find useful for your own work, and then help us make it better for our SETI search.
One song that inspires me is "Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon because it tells us that the world - that our world needs peace to make it a better place and also tells us how we can make peace with one another.
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