Reluctant Quotes - Page 4

• Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

  Henci Goer

  Believe, Doctors, Trying

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

  Arne Duncan

  Teaching, Thinking, Long

  "Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• The Auditor-General has been complaining year in and year out that the municipalities have not paid auditing fees. It is not because they are reluctant but they don't have the money to pay the Auditor. So, you can't say that you are throwing money at somebody who doesn't have money. Lots of the things that the municipalities can't do are because resources are not there.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Complaining, Auditors

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Wise, People, Giving

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• I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

  Rand Paul

  Real, War, Thinking

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• It's always a huge red flag for me when somebody's reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that are a testament to them as a person and their professional accomplishments.

  Ivanka Trump

  Thoughtful, Red Flags, Accomplishment

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good about what I did in the past. The way I see my work, time passes from the time I performed or recorded a work. When I look at it now, 25 years or 30 years ago, if I see that it has value today, I will agree to release it.

  Yoshi Wada

  Couple, Past, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

  Nina Simone

  Singing, Done, Singers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.

  Dan Abrams

  Mother, Thinking, Judging

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• Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

  Brian Lindstrom

  May, Etc, Belief

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

  Roz Chast

  Mother, Father, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best attorney around, that's who you go with. But in show business, for some reason they're still reluctant to say an attorney or a physician or an interior decorator can be in a chair, or on crutches, or blind or any of the other things.

  Gerald McRaney

  People, Guy, Physicians

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Order, Firsts, Income

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• I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein has these weapons, continues to attempt to improve their capability, and would not be reluctant to export them to other countries. So he presents a clear and present danger.

  John McCain

  Country, Thinking, Hussein

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. June 17, 2002.

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• I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

  Ian Mckellen

  Atheist, Gay, Impact

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• I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.

  Deborah Rhode

  Thinking, Decision, Independence

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

  William S. Burroughs

  Lying, Desire, Might

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mistake, Years, Worry

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• I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Television, Get Up

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

  John I. Jenkins

  Permission, Conclusion, Draws

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Mean, Chinese, Killing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

  Pat Metheny

  Years, Collaboration, Done

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, People, Leader

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.

  Daniel Byman

  People, Political, Police

  "When To Call Attacks 'Terrorism'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.

  Tika Sumpter

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Source: www.complex.com

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