Willingness Quotes - Page 32

• Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

  Biz Stone

  Risk, Path, Path To Success

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

  Stuart Sutherland

  Light, Mind, Weakness

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• Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fighting, Electric Power, Coal

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• I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Father, Giving, Bravery

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.

  Ramez Naam

  Technology, Environment, Pity

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.

  Arianna Huffington

  Determination, Fighting, Ideas

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• Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

  Alex Ebert

  Expression, Editors, Way

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican and Democrat leaders, and, in effect, do so in defense of the legitimate interest of people who make less than median income in America, is the key to victory.

  Jeff Sessions

  America, Keys, People

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• I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Artist, Thinking, Needs

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• My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.

  Rod Stryker

  Prayer, Self, People

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• We know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up [Vladimir] Putin, to support Putin, whether it's saying that NATO wouldn't come to the rescue of allies if they were invaded, talking about removing sanctions from Russian officials after they were imposed by the United States and Europe together, because of Russia's aggressiveness in Crimea and Ukraine, his praise for Putin which is I think quite remarkable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Russia, Ukraine

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We've lost a lot of coaches around here, but the philosophy and the approach, the standards we have set and the expectations we have maintained have always been upheld from one year to the next.I attribute that to the great character of the players and the willingness of the coaches to not get influenced and get off-message and to get out of the way.

  Pete Carroll

  Philosophy, Character, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Goal, Risk, Needs

  Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf (2006). “The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing”, p.267, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it.  If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the “different” you want to create in your life?  You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life.

  Mary Morrissey

  Different, Want, Next

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Function

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• The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Christian, Gratitude, Heart

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• Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Challenges, World

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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Medicine, Smoking, Important

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• The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.

  Steve Kerr

  Couple, Sacrifice, Thinking

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

  Sarah Miles

  Philosophical, Lenses, Way

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.

  Roger Goodell

  Ambition, Successful, Long

  "Roger Goodell talks crown-of-the-helmet rule, Tim Tebow, more". Interview with Steve Wyche, www.nfl.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Thinking

  "Book World Live: Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Outliers'". Online Discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2008.

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• The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Mean, Men

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