Willing Quotes - Page 19

• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors". www.geekwire.com. September 17, 2013.

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• It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

  Sara Blakely

  Mistake, Memorable, Important

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• If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teacher, Struggle, Sacrifice

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• Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Facts, And Love, Study

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

  Emma Bonino

  Community, Albania, Partners

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• No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

  Cory Booker

  Jobs, Hard Work, Color

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Accomplishment

  "George W. Bush Reluctantly Re-Enters the Spotlight" by Mary Dooe, www.cbsnews.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Progress, Trying, Needs

  "Q&A: Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Innovation, the “Next Steve Jobs” and Why Mobile Games Are “Over”". Interview with Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Effort, Literature

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Military, Believe, Men

  De Bello Gallico bk. 3, sec. 18.

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• Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

  Nicolas Cage

  Imagination, Fiction, Way

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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Issues, Borders

  "Cain: 'President Threw Israel Under the Bus'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Moving, Commitment

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.

  Tony Campolo

  Brother, Missionary, Might

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• Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Believe, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Sight

  1839 Chartism, ch.4.

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• I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Controversial address vaults Hopkins' Carson into political arena, The Baltimore Sun, articles.baltimoresun.com. February 18, 2013.

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• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  Vince Carter

  Hurt, Team, Guy

  InsideHoops.com Interview, www.insidehoops.com. August 12, 2003.

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• We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

  Dick Cheney

  Responsibility, Faces, Use

  2004 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 Jan.

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• When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

  Margaret Cho

  Powerful, Believe, Rights

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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• The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

  Chris Christie

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

  Amy Chua

  Life Knocks You Down, Ipods, Long

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• For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.

  George Clooney

  Country, Government, Definitions

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance.

  Dane Cook

  Drama, Reading, Home

  "Dane Cook Goes for Laughs in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 13, 2007.

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• I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Army, People, Tickets

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