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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Do Your Best Quotes

I think that everybody’s worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew. Those are the hardest jobs to do your best in, because as you’re performing, you’re aware that the people around you, because they haven’t been afforded the respect that they deserve, they’re not as invested.

– Jessalyn Gilsig

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you’re forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

– John Polkinghorne

You know, you just go out there, do your best. Sometimes it’s good enough and sometimes it is, and sometimes it stays your only one and sometimes you win bunch others behind it.

– Ivan Lendl

You can only do your best. That’s all you can do. And if it isn’t good enough, it isn’t good enough.

– Imelda Staunton

It’s bad writing, however naturalistic it’s written, that’s where you have to do your best acting.

– Adam Brody

To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.

– Andrew Luck

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

– Bob Cousy

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

– Alan Kulwicki

As an actor, you want to do your best but not overshine the film. No actor is above the film.

– Anushka Sharma

Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.

– Angela Watson

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you’ve got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don’t have that hunger.

– Clive Owen

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

– Brian Eno

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

– Brenton Thwaites

History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can’t know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.

– Martin Dempsey

You’re always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that’s all you can ask for.

– D’Brickashaw Ferguson

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

– Don Miguel Ruiz

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

– Duke Ellington

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

– Mike Farrell

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

– Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

– Lou Holtz

All the things I’ve done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people’s lives.

– Jonathan Powell

Whether you’re reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you’ll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

– Kris Carr

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

– Sean Combs

In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can’t decide if you win or not.

– Pauline Ferrand-Prevot

It’s definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did.

– Paula Garces

You try to do your best at what you’re getting paid for.

– Sean Penn

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

– Shawn Michaels

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

– Scott Eastwood

Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.

– Stephen Cole

I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

– Willem Dafoe

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