Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.

John Wooden

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

John Ruskin

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Mark Twain

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Marianne Williamson

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

Marianne Williamson

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Marianne Williamson

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

Marianne Williamson

Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'

Marianne Williamson

If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

Mark Leyner

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Mario Andretti

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again

Marilyn Manson

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Mae Whitman

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

Michael Cera

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

Michael Caine

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

Michael Caine

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Master P

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

Mason Cooley

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

Mason Cooley

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Mason Cooley

When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.

Mason Cooley

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

Mason Cooley

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

Mary Landrieu

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered, .. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Now that im older i'm more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I'm trying to concentrate on those things as opposed to things that make feel empty

Mary Kay Ash

Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.

Martin Short

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

Michael Franti

There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things.

Michael Chang

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

Michael Chabon

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

Michael Chabon

...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

Mia Wasikowska

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

Mia Wasikowska

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

Melvin Burgess

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.