Willingness Quotes - Page 27

• Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

  Garry Kasparov

  Levels, Chess, Loser

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• Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

  Tacitus

  Character, Law, History

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• Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

  Alanis Morissette

  Lying, Heart, Loses

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• When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Moving, Heart, Judgement

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• Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

  Jaron Lanier

  Perception, Suffering, Sake

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• truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don’t dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what’s revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Dream, Kissing, Hands

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• I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Night, Men

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.182, Anchor

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• Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Hard Work, Fighting, Men

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• The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

  Steven Heighton

  Sides, Idiot

  Steven Heighton (2010). “Afterlands”, p.322, Vintage Canada

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• Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Stupid, Creativity

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• This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

  Elaine Scarry

  Teacher, Order, Sky

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

  Jerry Bridges

  Biblical, Community, Important

  Jerry Bridges (1992). “The Crisis of Caring: Recovering the Meaning of True Fellowship”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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• The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Men, Race

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Attachment, Expectations, Joy

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• In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Fun, Lying

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• There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strength, Promise, Comfort

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• In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.

  John Quiggin

  Philosophical, Yield, Opposites

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• The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
  When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

  Thomas Paine

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.

  Nicola Barker

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Pain

  Nicola Barker (2012). “The Yips: A Novel”, p.115, Open Road Media

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• Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

  Mark Batterson

  Looks, Foolish

  Mark Batterson (2004). “Id: The True You”, p.133, Xulon Press

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• My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

  Vinod Khosla

  Giving, Succeed, Failing

  "Vinod Khosla: Be Wary of 'Stupid Advice'" by Bill Snyder, www.gsb.stanford.edu. May 28, 2015.

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• The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Vanity, Order

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• The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

  Nikolay Konstantinov

  Teacher, Rewards, Students

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• Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Judging

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• Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Commitment, Winning, Greatness

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