“I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.” PeopleTryingI CanPlayFunPiecesAreasBaseballHaving FunScream Author:Pedro Martinez
“I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.” PeopleWantTryingSaidPlayWinningPlayerGolfTournamentsRivalryGood GolfGolf Tournaments Author:Rory McIlroy
“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.” TryingPlayCharacterFilmProcessLearning Process Author:Ajay Naidu
“It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.” TryingEndsHardPlayCharacterThe End Of The Day Author:Ben Nicholas
“It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.” TryingWellsPlayNflAnother DayTomorrow Is Another Day Author:Ray Nitschke
“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.” ThinkingTryingPlayCharacterEmotionFocusShameRelateFrustrationLoadSoupHelplessnessUnfamiliarPsychoUnfairness Author:Terry O'Quinn
“I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.” WayTryingPlayTrumpCards Author:Billy Porter
“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.” NeedsWritingTryingKindBookDifferentPlayDisciplineDown AndNotesDifferent ThingsTapeJournal Author:Amy Ray
“It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.” IfsTryingDonePlaySportsChanceReadyTrainingExpectationsPreparationFrustratingDisappointingPlayoffs Author:Sidney Crosby
“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.” ThinkingKnowsTryingLooksLittlesPlayFilmFeltBitsActingCareersKnow HowLittle BitManageShellsShocked Author:Lea Thompson
“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.” TryingLongPlayKidsAgeSchoolPastGirlWaterTeamHairBallsGuitarGlassesAthletePianoGradesHockeyThrowingBucketsJocksLong HairAcneHockey Team Author:Michael Weatherly
“Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.” TryingPlayFantasySubjectsHonestMirrorsPhotographerPhotograph Author:Tim Walker
“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.” IfsTryingDifferentPlayWholeBreakRecordsFitSpeedRitualBackwardsGrooveTurntables Author:Christian Marclay
“If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.” IfsFeelsTryingI CanPlay Author:Elizabeth McGovern
“Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.” IfsTryingDoePlayBigsInterestPartyPayGroupsInfluenceSpecialLimitsBenefitsEthicsSpendingCampaignsFinanceReformOfficialsExceptionSpecial InterestsContractorInterest GroupsPublic OfficialsCampaign FinanceSpecial Interest Groups Author:Thomas Kean, Jr.
“I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.” TryingMatterPlayBeautifulFormLogicStressSomething NewEditsBeautiful Music Author:Stan Getz
“I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingPlayChildhoodWoundsHorribleGreekAssumptionOperaOld FashionedCatharsis Author:Sarah Ruhl
“I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.” ThinkingTryingPlayTragedyEnormousGreat Tragedy Author:Marian Seldes
“I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.” WayTryingPlaySongStuffImpactStudiosContinuingNew WaysPositive Impact Author:Stone Gossard
“I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.” TryingPlaySongGrowing UpGrowingBandGuitarPiano Author:Page McConnell
“MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.” WayWantTryingPlayRunningGamesDealsFieldsInvolvedActiveMlb Author:Paul Quantrill
“What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.” TryingPlayFactsStarsRealizingWho You AreBeing YourselfBe ConfidentBe Who You AreTry Your Best Author:Jerome Richardson
“Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingHardPlayShowsEasier Author:Benmont Tench
“Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.” ShouldTryingMatterPlayEvilObligationTreatedDestroyed Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Every day can't be the best day Do what you can right now, don't hesitate That's why we try to make love and get paid Take the bad with the good, now let's play” TryingPlayRight NowPaidRapBeing The BestMaking Love Author:Slug
“I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantTryingPlayPastSongGoneOne ThingStagePureIntention Author:Ryan Adams
“I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.” WayWantTryingPlayWantedRepeatsTiedAccentsPigeons Author:Carey Mulligan
“I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'” TryingSaidPlayHoursLinesConversationHundredFiftyHaresVertical Author:Bill Nighy
“I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.” TryingPlayCharacterLike YouBalanceScriptsMasculineHyperOverconfidentThings You LikeDouchebags Author:Jemaine Clement
“When I'm a little fatigued, sometimes I baby it. I don't try to do it. I'm not 100 percent. I probably won't be the rest of conference play. I just have to play through it. I've never really been injured before.” TryingLittlesSometimesPlayBabyPercentConferencesFatigueInjured Author:Bobby Jones
“Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.” TryingPlayEasyDisciplinePercentI RealizedNineExperimentsPianoInchesNailsSchoolwork Author:Trent Reznor
“If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?” IfsWantFeelsTryingPlayMightMotivationalGamesWinningGrowsStupidWillingApproachDiscoveryWilling To TryWilling To Change Author:Tony Robbins
“I've never done coke or anything, and I've never played a character who has, so I don't know whether I would actually try coke if I had to play a character who took coke.” IfsKnowsTryingDonePlayCharacterCoke Author:Carey Mulligan
“I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.” IfsKnowsTryingI CanImportantEndsPlayHomeJobsPastDogAdvantageGardenI've LearnedGet BackEnd TimesSpend TimeMundaneBeing Me Author:Guy Pearce
“I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.” KnowsTryingYearsLooksPlayKidsSidesSouthNineViolentSellingChicagoDopeBrazilNunNine YearsFavelas Author:Quincy Jones
“Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingTryingPlayOpinionConsciousManagersMy WayLabelsBother Author:Yukimi Nagano
“You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.” ThinkingWritingTryingWellsKindPlayFeelingsSentences Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.” IfsWayNeedsTryingFirstsChildrenPlayGoalTeachingAchieveDesignDisciplineCuriosityGood TimesControlledUnpredictableRelaxedConditioningBoundlessIndividualistic Author:Roger Fouts
“I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored” IfsWayTryingTwoHardPlayUsedCertainLevelsHard WorkBallsTricksExperimentsDawnTennisScoreTargetSheerDuskOne On OneToilingTennis Balls Author:Zinedine Zidane
“You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.” TryingPlayFilmFoundInterestingPlayerStructureVersionsSession Author:Mike Figgis
“I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingLooksPlayWholeWishMy OwnFantasyFive Author:Cindy Margolis
“I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingPlayKidsWantedSchoolYoungLaughingKnow HowComedyMy FamilyWork OutHopefullyMaking People Laugh Author:Jillian Bell
“Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.” ThinkingWayTryingPlayMightHappensTogetherCitiesJazzArchitectureWorking TogetherLiquid Author:Frank Gehry