Daily Inspiration Quote by David Talbot

Confidence is doing a lot of PR work here. "I think we're really getting it right" opens with a softener that’s both journalistic and political: Talbot claims progress while building in plausible deniability. It signals optimism without inviting an audit. The phrase "the last few months" is the tell. It’s a timestamp that quietly admits there was a "before" worth not dwelling on - a period when "getting it right" wasn’t the story you’d want to headline. By narrowing the frame, he reframes performance as a trajectory rather than a verdict.

"We're" matters, too. It’s collective language that spreads responsibility across a team, an outlet, maybe an entire operation. That’s the newsroom’s preferred grammar when stakes are high: no single byline owns the mistakes, no single editor gets to hoard the credit. It also invites the audience to read improvement as institutional, not accidental.

The second half - "and hopefully we'll get better and better at it" - adds a controlled vulnerability. "Hopefully" asks for patience and buy-in, a way of saying: judge us by the direction, not the destination. The repetition of "better and better" is intentionally unspecific, a crescendo without metrics. That vagueness is the point: it keeps the promise large enough to feel reassuring and small enough to avoid commitments.

As a journalist, Talbot’s intent is likely reputational: to project competence and momentum during or after scrutiny, change, or experimentation. The subtext: we’ve learned, we’ve adjusted, and we’d like you to keep reading while we continue to figure it out.