Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Job
  • I Can

• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Sacrifice
  • Innovation

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Job
  • Best

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Money
  • Job
  • Competition

• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Military
  • Democratic

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Job
  • Enough
  • Drummer

• I have always been very comfortable in little clothing; its part of my job.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Job
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Want

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

  

  J. Cole
  • She
  • Job
  • Man

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• 'There’s a law,' Chuck said, 'which I call Rittersdorf’s Third Law of Diminished Returns, which states that proportional to how long you hold a job you imagine that it has progressively less and less importance in the scheme of things.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Long
  • Job
  • Law

• I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Work
  • Home

• When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Book
  • Reading

• Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Work
  • Cry
  • Sweat

• I am living my dream every day.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • Dream

• Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Job
  • Perseverance