Willingness Quotes - Page 12

• We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Understanding, Humanity

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

  Gail Sheehy

  Natural Talent, Suffering, Embarrassment

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin

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• The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

  Mike Brown

  Knowing, Risk, Failing

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• Creativity is not the possession of some special talent.
  It’s about the willingness to play.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Play, Special

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  The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Hard Work, Achievement

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Judging

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• Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

  Susan Piver

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Buddhist

  "What is True Confidence?" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• You have to be willing to stop and fix. Deep practice requires a willingness to do what many of us find uncomfortable: to admit to our errors, and focus on them.

  Daniel Coyle

  Focus, Uncomfortable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Achievement, Risk

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• An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".

  Derek Bok

  Men, Views, Issues

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• I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Evil, Triumph

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

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• Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

  J. C. Ryle

  Running, Children, Kindness

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.5, Booklassic

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• Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Exercise, Relax

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Expression, Courageous, Empty

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2015

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• To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

  Jack Kornfield

  Prayer, Commitment, Practice

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

  Atul Gawande

  Differences, Risk, Triumph

  "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.

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• When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

  Jeff Bezos

  Keys, Long, People

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• All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, School, Thinking

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.19, Penguin

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• It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from the creating, essentially, a corporate oligarchic state.

  Chris Hedges

  Creating, People, States

  "Journalist Chris Hedges on Capitalism's "Sacrifice Zones": Communities Destroyed for Profit". "Moyers & Company", www.truth-out.org. July 24, 2012.

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

  Jack Canfield

  Jobs, Long, Done

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• The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

  Simon Sinek

  Self, Leader, Needs

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.8, Penguin

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free.” Are you willing? Or do you just want towait until the world  finally gets it and does it your way?

  Gangaji

  Running, Hurt, Doe

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• The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.

  Eugene Odum

  Fate, Quality, Benefits

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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