Unwilling Quotes - Page 12

• A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling worker, dissatisfied with his conditions, will turn out in 54 hours. It is good business, therefore, for every employer to go as far as he possibly can in reaching a schedule agreeable to his people.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Business, Heart

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• Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.136

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• I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as
  the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these
  require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are
  just friends and brave enemies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Rights, Long

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.205, Algora Publishing

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• They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.

  James G. March

  People, Made, Preference

  "How Decisions Happen in Organizations". Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 6, 1991.

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• The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

  Moshe Katsav

  Community, Accepting, Regimes

  "Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

  Arthur Keith

  Government, People, Universalism

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Cutting, People, Majority

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• Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hands, Order, People

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• Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Light, Rose

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• Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

  Richard Bach

  Change, Stars, Finding Yourself

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• The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

  "Cambodian Road Trip". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 15, 2009.

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• The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

  Byron White

  Law, Issues, Long

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1986.

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• To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Selfish, Giving

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• Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

  Neal Ascherson

  People, Conformity, Kind

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• A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Selfish, Names, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Peace, Names

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.281

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• If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sympathy, Lying, Heart

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• I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  "Obama on Marriage: 'Attitudes Evolve, Including Mine'". Interview with Joe Sudbay, www.advocate.com. October 27, 2010.

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• If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

  Price Pritchett

  Pain, Pleasure, Holes

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• Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Mistress, Biologist

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• We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorists as long as we have a president [Barack Obama] unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorists'.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Long, President

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• The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Zero, Book, Long

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• A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Believe, Mind, Facts

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• All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

  Honore de Balzac

  Idols, Noble, Want

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• I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Talking, People, Doe

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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