William Griffith Wilson (Bill Wilson) Quotes

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

William Griffith Wilson

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• What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.

  

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• I want a place where I can have horses.

  

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• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

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• My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

  

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• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

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• Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

  

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• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

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• I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.

  

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• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

  

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• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

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• No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

  

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• I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

  

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• One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

  

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• The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

  

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• As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

  

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• With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

  

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• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  

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• In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?

  

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• We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Decision
  • Choices
  • inspirational