Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
Quotes to Explore
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.
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Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.
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Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.
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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
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I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.
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After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'
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We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
