Willingness Quotes - Page 24

• We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

  Alice McDermott

  Laughter, Silly, Names

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black

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• This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mind, Fundamentals, Embrace

  Stephen Batchelor (2010). “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist”, p.74, Spiegel & Grau

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• Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

  Tom Peters

  Motivational, Mean, Cutting

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• You are more powerful than any fearful force. Your Divine willingness can out-will any darkness that the world has ever seen.

  Doreen Virtue

  Powerful, Darkness, World

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2016

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• You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

  Farrah Gray

  Business, Hard Work, Successful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from Jul 24, 2011

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• The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Spiritual, Humility, Apology

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• ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

  Ian Caldwell

  Wall, Saws, Standing

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Patience, Mean, Patient Person

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• Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

  David A. Bednar

  Men, Ordinary, Authority

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• The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Firsts

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.131, Random House

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• It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

  Mark Udall

  Running, School, People

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• Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

  Frank Gehry

  Fun, Creativity, Grandmother

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• The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

  Thomas Keating

  Acceptance, Giving, Let It Go

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• I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do-and boring as the day is long.

  Terri Irwin

  Passion, Long, People

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Part 4: Adrenaline Junkie?". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Faith, Risk

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• A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.

  Denise Levertov

  Writing, Order, Stopping

  Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.146, New Directions Publishing

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• My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Determination, Self, Practice

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• I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

  Steven Tyler

  Thinking, Risk, Aerosmith

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• I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

  Emma Thompson

  Mean, Two, Fields

  "Hugh Laurie". Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Maturity, Giving, Passion And Purity

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• Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

  Carl Sagan

  Challenges, Dogma, Sometimes

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the unexpected phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the warm smile or wink of recognition. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Simple, Phones, Profound

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• Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Views, Speak Your Mind, Ego

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 22, 2013

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• Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be.

  Adyashanti

  Teaching, Meditation, Realization

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• Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

  Gail Sheehy

  Natural Talent, Suffering, Embarrassment

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin

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