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• Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice, Tolerance, Down And

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• I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

  John Roberts

  Thinking, Views, Law

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• It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

  Thomas Davis

  Blood, Nations

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• The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

  Seth

  Organization, People, Goal

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• Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

  Seth

  Deception, Speak, Icarus

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• The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.

  Erik Erikson

  Teaching, Order, Giving

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• Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

  Richard Carlson

  Gratitude, Pain, Real

  Richard Carlson (2011). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Fall, Self Confidence

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1306, Penguin UK

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• As a parent, the goal is not to get to the other end. It's just simply to protect the children that you're responsible for - and protect their hearts - and, wherever they're headed, to get (them) there safely. That involves patience, time and willingness to listen.

  Martha Williamson

  Children, Heart, Goal

  "'Touched by an Angel' producer Martha Williamson has “Delivered” a new hit to Hallmark Channel". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Character, Player, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

  William Bennett

  Children, Real, Mean

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• If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.

  John Piper

  Son, Love Is, Justice

  John Piper (2005). “For Your Joy”

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• The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

  Caroline Knapp

  Keys, Useless, Latter

  Caroline Knapp (2004). “Appetites: Why Women Want”, p.191, Counterpoint Press

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• Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

  Nat Hentoff

  Fighting, Surrender, Notion

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• The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.

  Chester Barnard

  Communication, Responsibility, Organization

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• I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dull, Favour, Proportion

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• Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Work Out, Secret, Way

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  Gary Bauer

  Greatness, America, Needs

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• It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

  Ziggy Marley

  Years, Ideas, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

  Sam Harris

  Differences, Passionate, Argument

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, en.wikiquote.org. January 02, 2006.

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• I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.

  Lena Dunham

  Smart, Effort, Trying

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.

  Tom Coburn

  Giving Up, Commitment, Keys

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• You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

  Sam Altman

  Needs, Belief, Conviction

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• With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. Whether he compromises on some of his nominees, including any to the Supreme Court, may depend on the willingness of the new Republican majority to engage the president on judicial philosophy.

  Terry Eastland

  Philosophy, Wings, Office

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