I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.
I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad.
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.
Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.
All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
Authenticity doesn't just mean you're not filtering what you're saying, it's about being able to know and access the best parts of yourself and bring them forward.
My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.
In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.
If a natural disaster like a flock of birds or a bolt of lightning causes a plane's engines to fail, you know what should be expected? That the pilot will keep his or her wits about them and do their best to save each and every soul on board. That's precisely what Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger and the rest of his crew did.
Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.
We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.
The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
As a black woman trying different products and figuring out what works best for me, the one thing that I realized is that hair brands lump us together as having 'black hair,' but all black hair is not alike.
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.
For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.
The best working experiences I've had are with directors who want to create with you while you're on set. I prefer a much freer environment. That's why I'm always trying to mess things up, just to know that I can!
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.
I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.
Oakland kids are always the best.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.
