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• Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Difficulty

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• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Appreciation can make a day - even change a life.

  Margaret Cousins

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

  Scott Adams

  Dating, Religion, Principles

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Attitude, Prayer, Done

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

  Alistair Cooke

  Spring, People, Generosity

  "Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Book by David Wilkinson, p. 3, August 1, 2013.

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• There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

  Chuck Jones

  Thinking, Long, Inevitability

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• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  Bertrand Russell

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

  "Sceptical Essays". Ch. 13: Freedom in Society. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1928.

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• It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivational, Business, Connections

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• It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

  Albert Barnes

  Christian, Heart, Doe

  Albert Barnes (1853). “Notes Explanatory and Practical on the Gospels: Matthew Ans Mark”, p.330

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• One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

  Matthew Kahn

  Spiritual, Honesty, Heart

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• The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

  Bram Cohen

  Realizing, Mature, Mark

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• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

  Thomas Szasz

  Positive, Education, Children

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Urges

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• But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

  George Carey

  Military, Light, Would Be

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

  Mason Cooley

  Sincerity

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• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

  John Updike

  Artist, Risk, Excess

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.189, Random House

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• That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Commitment, Opportunity, People

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

  Seth

  Want, Ability, Do Whatever You Want

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• Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Heart, Humble

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• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Cheating, Thinking

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• There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Peace, Ubuntu, Long

  "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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