Willingness Quotes - Page 19

• To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

  Jack Kornfield

  Prayer, Commitment, Practice

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

  Atul Gawande

  Differences, Risk, Triumph

  "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.

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• When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

  Jeff Bezos

  Keys, Long, People

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• All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, School, Thinking

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.19, Penguin

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• It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from the creating, essentially, a corporate oligarchic state.

  Chris Hedges

  Creating, People, States

  "Journalist Chris Hedges on Capitalism's "Sacrifice Zones": Communities Destroyed for Profit". "Moyers & Company", www.truth-out.org. July 24, 2012.

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

  Jack Canfield

  Jobs, Long, Done

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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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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Evil

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Prayer, Men, Heaven

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• The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Courage, Inspiration

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

  Martin Seligman

  Life, Memories, Work

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.15, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

  Neil Gaiman

  Woods, Steps, Madness

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• I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Thinking, Vacation

  Interview with Ali Trachta, www.laweekly.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.

  F. Sionil José

  Loss, Giving, Return

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• Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Integrity, Mean, Reality

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• ...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Mean, Joy

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

  Rhonda Britten

  Inspirational, Matter

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.153, Penguin

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• 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 true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

  Simon Sinek

  Self, Leader, Needs

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.8, Penguin

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