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• Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.

  George Washington

  Heart, Mean, May

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.504

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• One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can.

  Catherine the Great

  Doe, Doing Your Best

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• It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

  Keren Ann

  Everyday, Trying, Sound

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• Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

  Richard Stallman

  Way, Ethics, Absolute Certainty

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot.org Interview, slashdot.org. May 01, 2000.

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• The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.

  Alfonso Soriano

  Team, Trying, Comfort

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• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  Walt Disney

  Cute, Children, Animal

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

  Jewel

  Garden, Careers, Water

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• I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Eye

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• When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Believe, Hard Work

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• You can't please everybody. All you can do is really just try to work from the heart and do the best job that you can and hope for the best.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Jobs, Heart, Best Job

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• I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Each soul has it's own path. Children are young personalities but they are not always young souls. Incarnation into the domain of the five senses is a dramatic act of spiritual responsibility. Neonates are great souls and so I honor their paths. I do the best that I can, but the best that I can do is to change myself. To make myself a citizen like I want others to be.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Mean, Artist

  Source: thehollywoodvoice.com

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• You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Best Job, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I think just having a gift and being able to do something creative and having people like it and enjoy it... I'm in a really, really cool place here. A lot of people try to do this and might get a little bit of success, but we've been lucky. We're going to take that and try and go as far as we can with it and just do the best that we can.

  Mitch Lucker

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• I believe women do the best womenswear.

  Tim Gunn

  Believe, I Believe

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Defeat, Ashamed, Disgrace

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

  Sam Altman

  Successful, Data, Years

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• I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

  Darius McCrary

  Years, Giving, Roles

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.

  Aaliyah

  Work, People, Trying

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• Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

  Alan Ball

  Successful, Strive, Can Do

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• The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Mind, Trying, Can Do

  "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

  Tom Hardy

  Teeth, Arses, Wipe

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.

  Martin Scorsese

  Trying, Complaining, Needs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Jobs, Choices, Support

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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