I try to play hard defensively.

While sophisticated plays can work in poker, if attempted by an inexperienced player, they'll usually backfire. Elaborate bluffs and check-raises are best left to experienced players. It's just like...

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

The success of one film may convince the filmmaker to try to repeat his successes and get into a competition with himself. One cannot dwell on periodic successes. You have to look at it as a...

If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not...

We'll continue to try to increase knowledge about our culture.

I played basketball in fourth, fifth and sixth grade because it was what my friends did. But in seventh grade, I decided I wanted to quit baseball, start playing basketball and really just try to get...

I just try to keep my legs in shape and rest my legs as much as I can.

I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

I try not to pay attention to all the hype.

In the back of your mind there's always these contractual things you have to deal with. You try to put that aside when it comes to training and playing.

I don't want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.

If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm...

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That...

If we want to get to the next level, let's take a risk and try something different.

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?

I think that it's very important that whoever is in office can trust the U.S. military to provide him with advice in private so that advice is not then used by somebody to try to criticize the...

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of...

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if...

I started training judo when I was 5 years old. I didn't know much. My mom just took me and my brother to do some judo because we were very energetic. We did that for a couple of years. I don't know...

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

The idea is to recruit in a closed environment, rather than listening to the press or getting distracted by conflicting agents' claims. We try and make cold decisions based on information.

It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out...

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.