Willingness Quotes - Page 25

• Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

  Jeff Bezos

  Long, Misunderstood, Invention

  Aspen Institute’s 2009 Annual Awards Dinner in New York City speech, www.theatlantic.com. 2009.

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• The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

  Mike Brown

  Knowing, Risk, Failing

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• Creativity is not the possession of some special talent.
  It’s about the willingness to play.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Play, Special

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  The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Hard Work, Achievement

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 03, 2013

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• Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to it. One is to blame others. Lay it all on somebody else; drive all blames into everyone else. The other alternative is to feel guilty about our rage and blame ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Pain, Heart

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• Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

  Brandon Bays

  Healing, Essence, Roots

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• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Struggle, Israel, United States

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to the singular sparrows of the street, the lilies of the field, "to the least of these my brethren." Love is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble, and unrewarded.

  Wendell Berry

  Love, Humble, Desire

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• So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love, Beautiful, Lying

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• The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

  Alan Alda

  Real, Thinking, Differences

  "Alan Alda ... on Celebrity and Its Discontents". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. January 22, 2007.

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• The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.

  John Sununu

  Men, Two, Numbers

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• Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

  John Sununu

  Technology, Nuclear, Use

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• No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Prejudice, Up To You

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• There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Ideas, Focus, Accountability

  "Bloomberg will decide on White House bid by early March" by John King, edition.cnn.com. January 10, 2008.

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• Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

  Annie Besant

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.403, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

  Louise Hay

  Mistake, Love You, Punishing Yourself

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Feb 09, 2012

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• Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

  Myles Munroe

  Giving Up, Way, Surrender

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.65, Destiny Image Publishers

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• In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creative, Mind, Steps

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.57, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Surrender, Possibility

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• You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.

  Wayne Dyer

  Keys, Complaining, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 14, 2012

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• Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mistake, Doe, Holiness

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• Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

  Clifford D. Simak

  Faith, Believe, Faces

  "A Choice of Gods". Book by Clifford D. Simak. Chapter 7, 1972.

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• The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Persistence, Empathy

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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