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• Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.

  Marva Dawn

  Skeletons, Healthy, Dry

  Marva J. Dawn (2015). “How Shall We Worship?: Biblical Guidelines for the Worship Wars”, p.8, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

  George W. Bush

  War, Hussein, Funny Bush

  "Jerry Springer, Ann Coulter Debate War With Iraq, Domestic Policy". "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

  Wendell Berry

  Government, Enemy, Readiness

  Wendell Berry, David James Duncan (2003). “Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror”

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• Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Success, Mean, Views

  FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from May 22, 2013

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• Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Two, Anxiety

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.35, Penguin

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• There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

  Ann Aguirre

  Fighting, Compassion, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.244, Macmillan

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• Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

  Jared Diamond

  Reflection, Two, Long

  "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Book by Jared Diamond, 2005.

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Crush, Religious, Patriotic

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Effort, Meditation, Persevere

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 07, 2011

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• Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Practice, Important, Elements

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• The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

  Michelle Alexander

  Fate, People, Justice

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.16, The New Press

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• ...It’s not the lies that hurt people. It’s the willingness of everyone else to believe them..." Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Lying, Believe

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• To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Jewels, Risk, Important

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• The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doors, Understanding, Identity

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• Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

  Tom Peters

  Motivational, Mean, Cutting

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• The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiration, Volunteer, Community

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• It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.

  Mark Van Doren

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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• Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Ideas, Way

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Views, Political

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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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• Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.

  William A. Connelly

  Mean, Army, Knowing

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• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Couple, Flower, Love You

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

  Booker T. Washington

  Famous Inspirational, Race, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.158, University of Illinois Press

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• My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

  Shakti Gawain

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Loving Life

  Shakti Gawain (2008). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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