Reluctant Quotes - Page 12

• Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

  Philo

  Education, Learning, Curiosity

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• I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

  Jon Foreman

  Mouths

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• I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, New York, Book

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• I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, May, Might

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2017

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• The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Criticism, Knows

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• The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

  Michael Heizer

  Mean, Say Anything, Copying

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• I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short run, is to go to nuclear power. It's amazing to me that people who are so alarmed about global warming are so reluctant to adopt the obvious short-term solution - the bridge until the day when we have affordable renewable energy - of nuclear power.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Bridges, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

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• If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

  Kate Hudson

  Thinking, Chance, Ifs

  "Glamour's April 2013 Cover Star, Kate Hudson, Bares All: "I Don't Keep Any Secrets"". Interview with Mira Nair, www.glamour.com. March 5, 2013.

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• The issue we are reluctant to talk about is even more sensitive than condoms. The issue - and I will try to be tasteful here - is that sometimes it seems like maybe the president of the United States is kind of dumb. If you get what I mean. What I mean is, I am not totally confident that the president would get what I mean, unless several aides explained it to him. And even then, he might forget.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mean, Issues

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• I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Political, Paper

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• God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking down the street in Manhattan one day, and I realize maybe it's those guys you see walking down the street talking to themselves. You know, those guys that are like, 'I can't! No, I can't!' Maybe the other side of that conversation is God going, 'You're the new leader.' 'No I can't!' They're not crazy - they're reluctant prophets.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Chess, Overconfidence

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

  Robert Blair

  Angel, Return, Ghost

  Robert Blair (1804). “The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].”

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• This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

  Bob Graham

  War, Iraq, President

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• When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was about generating a consensus all the time. Later on, I realized that it's actually generous to know what you want and to tell people what you want - actors, crew, everyone.

  Liza Johnson

  People, Ensemble, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.

  Frank Deford

  School, Thinking, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U.S.

  Michael Klare

  War, Thinking, Views

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Misunderstood, Hints

  Max Lucado (2006). “Everyday Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, Thomas Nelson

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• We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

  Peter Block

  Letting Go, Care, Belief

  Peter Block (1996). “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest”, p.19, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Men, Discovery

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

  Charles M. Schwab

  Overalls

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Hero, Gun, Helping Others

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

  David Ogilvy

  Hours, Staff, Figures

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

  Brian Chesky

  People, Leader, Helpful

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