Willingness Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fashion, Selfish, Independent

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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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• In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.

  Samuel Alito

  Opportunity, Southern Italy, Class

  "An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 9, 2014.

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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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• Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

  Stephen Levine

  Memories, Touching, Difficult

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• The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Guarantees That, Atheism

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• Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, People, Risk

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.303, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is “descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.” Willingness is the single most important test.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving Up, Self, People

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• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Dream, Iraq, People

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• What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

  Jay Carney

  Foundation, World, Republican

  "Carney: GOP threatens economy" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. October 01, 2013.

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• The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

  Rex Brandt

  Friendly, Dabs, Looks

  Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”

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• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

  Ma Jian

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

  Sol Stern

  Rejection, Hatred, Compromise

  Sol Stern (2013). “A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred”, p.1938, Encounter Books

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• The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.

  Alice Steinbach

  Fun, Hands, Each Day

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