“I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.” TryingWeekVariousToneCampsBootsPilatesBoot Camp Author:Rachelle Lefevre
“In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.” TryingUseRaceWeekAreasBagsWipeGermsSupermarketsTrolleys Author:Paula Radcliffe
“I'm not the healthiest eater, but I try to watch what I eat during the week. I kind of splurge on the weekends and eat french fries and pizza.” TryingKindWatchesWeekWeekendPizzaFriesFrench Fries Author:Jessica Szohr
“Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?” KnowsWantTryingShowsHomeActorsLeftTalkingWeekCrewPerfectionistHanging AroundLeft HandedFussy Author:Eric Stoltz
“I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.” TryingKindOrderProcessWeekSalvationOrganizeObscureDvds Author:Michael Weatherly
“Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.” PeopleTryingLittlesTeacherMeditationGroupsWeekInspireBuddhismBetter Than YouMeditating Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.” PeopleShouldTryingEnoughShowsHoursWeekShould HavePrioritiesEnough TimeOne HourTop Priorities Author:Gavin MacLeod
“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.” NeedsFeelsWritingTryingI CanThreeHoursWeekTheoryLike YouDistractionDefenceProcrastinatingSpades Author:Markus Zusak
“Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week, gets you there. So keep moving, even if it's only a little some weeks.” IfsTryingLittlesHappensMovingDecisionStepsWeekDeterminationDefeatSteadyKeep MovingStop TryingForward Motion Author:Ken Evoy
“One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the young woman from a nearby village, who had been hired to baby sit newborn twins, suddenly said after two weeks of work: 'I'm sorry, this is too much work, I'm going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.'” TryingSaidTwoHomeJobsYoungHousePayToo MuchWeekBabySorryEnormousVillageTwinsYoung WomenI'm SorryTwo WeeksNewbornToo Much WorkBangaloreCall Center Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.” TryingProblemTogetherJobsThreeProcessDecisionCareersTakenPiecesWeekAmountFlowProductionsFinanceCashOnly TimeInadequatePrepsCash Flow Author:Joe Johnston
“For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.” TryingArtistTechnologyCuttingWeekMastersMediumsMasteryNoveltyViolinNew TechnologyDivingShort Cuts Author:Stewart Brand
“When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.” TryingThreeFatherBornWeekBirthCertificatesLoopholesBirth Certificate Author:Jackie Vernon
“Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.” TryingMeanStillsTwoMomentsRoomsWeekMomSixPaidDollarsCleanHandleToysReally MeanCleanlinessYour RoomTeachableTeachable Moments Author:Dave Ramsey
“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.” TryingKindMeanLittlesDoneRunningWantedBitsHoursRolesFiveWeekFitSceneSixLittle BitSevenEightBe KindWorthwhile Author:Guy Pearce
“The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.” WayTryingSaidIdeasWholeSimpleWeekPrideProveEgoSixSizeYesterdayObjectivesBrokeBathsMarketplaceSimple WaysWhittlingExcessive Pride Author:William O'Neil
“I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.” IfsTryingI CanWeekWork Out Author:Jennifer Garner
“I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.” TryingStillsI CanWeekBandAddCompositionCatchingDebut Author:David First
“I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.” FeelsTryingYearsTwoKidsRememberUsedSleepWeekBedTenEndlessChristmasFasterTwo WeeksGoing To SleepBeing A KidEndless Time Author:Andrea Arnold
“Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.” IfsWayGivingTryingWellsLooksStillsDifferentNextMistakeAirWeekSecuritySceneSeriesDifferent WaysFlexibilityNext Week Author:Clint Eastwood
“The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that. It's not a lot of fun, that's for sure. If that really is love, the kind my mum talks about, then nobody can ever know if they love somebody, can they? It seems like what she's saying is, if you're pretty sure you love somebody, the way I was sure in those few weeks, then you can't love them, because that isn't what love is. Trying to understand what she means by love would do your head in.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayLoveTryingKindMeanSeemsFunStuffLove IsWorryWeekForgivingMumKinds Of LoveYou Re PrettyForgiving People Author:Nick Hornby
“I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.” ThinkingTryingWellsNextBitsGoneWeekBattleSixNewsKarmaShootingTargetChefExhaustedShockedGood NewsCongratulationsJetBad NewsNext WeekBad Karma Author:Geoffrey Zakarian
“It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.” PeopleKnowsShouldTryingChildrenProblemSimpleWeekTablesBusyCooksBusy LifeMicrowavesSimple Food Author:Raymond Blanc
“My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.” TryingPersonsWeekWorstNormalAthleteVicesPigsGluttony Author:Gianluigi Buffon
“You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.” PeopleWayTryingHardReasonPlayPassionGamesFunEnjoyWeekHard WorkGet Better Author:Tony Romo
“It's a job. Get up and do it every day. Show up. Don't say no. Taylor Swift was the third write of my day every week. If I had gone home or said “Ah, man. I'm tired today. I'm not going to write at 4 o'clock in the afternoon with a teenager.' If I had done that, just think. Keep an open mind. Everybody has something to come into the room with and when you're starting out, try everything. You might find your magical writing partner.” IfsThinkingMenWritingTryingMindSaidDoneShowsHomeMightTodayJobsRoomsGoneWeekThirdsTiredStartingPartnersGet UpTeenagerClockAfternoonOpen MindI'm TiredStarting OutKeep An Open Mind Author:Liz Rose
“My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.” TryingFightingSportsGoalWeekClubsBangsDefendersStrikers Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy
“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.” TryingDoeShowsFunFourCuttingWeekRight NowScriptsRoughWorking ItGood WorkOutlines Author:Aaron Spelling
“I think we are trying to improve for next week. Period. I do not think anybody is thinking about anything else.” ThinkingTryingNextWeekPeriodsTigersNext WeekLsu Author:Les Miles
“There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there's this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I'm just always in the going. And it's not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I'm gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I'm just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it's all in the going.” PeopleIfsNeedsTryingArtI CanBookLife IsFunWatchesWeekKeysFineMonthsDestinationKeep GoingNutsCan NotConsumingAbsorbingFranticWatch Movie Author:Patton Oswalt
“I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.” WritingTryingWeekConnectionsBaseballWideRangeThinkerCompetenceDinosaursBeing AfraidChoral Music Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Everything is moderation, really. I don't really deprive myself of anything. But I try to balance it with healthy food choices. I am not real fond of exercise, so I try to get away with as little as possible which is about thirty minutes three times a week and I do a little weight training and cardio.” TryingLittlesRealChoicesThreeWeekMinutesBalanceExerciseHealthyTrainingWeightThirtyGet AwayModerationThree TimesHealthy FoodCardioWeight TrainingFood Choices Author:Martina McBride
“I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like "Which is better?" At least I was trying.” PeopleThinkingTryingSexFiveWeekMarriedRefuseBizarreBuddy Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Next week John Boehner will be sitting behind Barack Obama at the State of the Union address. I think Obama should purposely try to embarrass him by telling the story of 'Old Yeller.' The state of our Union is strong, but not so good for one special dog.'” ThinkingShouldTryingStatesStoriesNextStrongBehindsWeekSpecialDogSittingUnionsBarackAddressesNext WeekOld Yeller Author:Bill Maher
“I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.” TryingDifferentPerfectProgressWeekMaterialsGoes OnPursuitCraftsAuditionsWork In ProgressHoning Author:Jake Busey
“The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.” TryingThreeWeekSixGymChill Author:Felicity Kendal
“I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.” TryingHoursClassWeekSpinningOne Hour Author:Robert Herjavec
“Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.” KnowsTryingStillsPlayAnimalWeekObviousFlightThrownCategoriesKillersShockingAirlineWhalesSouthwest AirlinesKiller Whales Author:Bill Maher
“I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.” WritingTryingYearsTwoPlayThreeGamesHoursMorningFiveFourWeekClubsBridgesTournamentsDuplicate Author:Louis Sachar
“I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"” ThinkingKnowsTryingMomentsHomeCertainThreeNextStuffFourWeekBuildingStudiosShootingNext DayComing BackRehearsal Author:Anthony Heald
“I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?"” WantWritingTryingTwoStuffWeekFiguresMaterialsJokes Author:Chris Rock
“I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or deciding on a complete plan for fighting the whole war, you know, and letting a committee decide where the battleships should go and all of that. You better spring into action with the best people you have.” PeopleKnowsShouldTryingMeanWarWholeActionJobsFightingPlansWeekSpringBlameCommitteesPearlsHarbors Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.” KnowsFeelsTryingI CanTwoTogetherActorsWeekCostumesStarters Author:Gus Van Sant
“Triathlon has quite a short season. It only runs from May to September so there's a lot of time when you're not racing. So I try to set myself the target of doing a certain amount of training every week and things like that.” TryingMayRunningCertainWeekAmountTrainingSeasonsTargetRacingSeptemberTriathlon Author:Alistair Brownlee
“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.” KnowsTryingMindShowsAgeSexKnow HowFiveWeekCrazyPeriodsDrinkSickAidsPerformingMeatRestaurantsVegetarianStarvingFast FoodAbstinenceHaving SexEyeballsFast Food Restaurants Author:Michael Stipe
“Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.” TryingTwoBookKidsSchoolReadingChallengesWeekReading BooksTwo WeeksStay In School Author:Alex Rodriguez
“The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.” IfsWayTryingYearsBelieveMeanLongGamesTermForgetEconomyWeekFineMonthsDon't BelieveInvestingLong TermBuyingInvestorsFeesAmerican EconomyBuying Stocks Author:Warren Buffett
“Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you. In the meantime, treat others how you'd like to be treated. One trait that some of the best (communicators) share is empathy. A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.” WantTryingKindPersonsHappensPayWeekShareJudgingCoupleEmpathyTreatsTreatedComplimentTraitsCan NotImprovingSupporterKind WordsCommunicatorsImproving Yourself Author:Neil Strauss
“I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.” TryingThreeFourWeekYogaGymTrainers Author:Nicole Trunfio
“My golden time is after I drop the kids off at school. I'm usually working on my website (lifestyle site Goop) and checking emails but I try to do something at least once a week - like a facial or a visit to the osteopath - something to bring myself back into my body.” TryingBodyKidsSchoolWeekLifestyleGoldenSiteEmailWebsiteFacial Author:Gwyneth Paltrow