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• I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.

  Michael Loceff

  Average, People, Belief

  "he Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

  Robert Frost

  Courage, Littles, Venture

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• President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.

  Colin Powell

  War, America, Optimism

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

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• Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

  Carter Heyward

  Love Is, Choices, Rational

  Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”

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• My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

  Brian Johnson

  Knowing, Risk, Paint

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• Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

  Martin O'Malley

  Leadership, Adversity, Two

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• Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, People

  "We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

  Brooke Shields

  Mirrors, Opposites, Weakness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Artist, Psychics

  Howard Gardner (1982). “Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity”

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• If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Agreement, Sides, Negotiation

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• A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Arbitrary, Rewards, Conformity

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• Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.

  Debra L. Lee

  Brother, Real, Healing

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• Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Honesty, Hard Work

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• We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder … whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" … The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.

  John Rosemond

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Rights

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• A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humility, Tree, Weight

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• What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Passion, Eye

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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• There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Doe, World, Earth

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270" by Sri Chinmoy, (#18991, Part 190), 1983.

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• If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

  Nick Hanauer

  Real, Care, Social

  Source: gawker.com

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• Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

  Gerald May

  Yield, Giving, Mastery

  Gerald G. May (2009). “Will and Spirit”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It doesn't take time to think right. It only takes the willingness to do so.

  Kenneth G. Mills

  Thinking, Time To Think, Take Time

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• Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.

  Danny Gregory

  Mindfulness, Needs, World

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• The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

  Learned Hand

  Survival, World, Social

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

  Neil Gaiman

  Decision, Magic, Concerned

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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