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• Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, People, First Lady

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• A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

  Lori Greiner

  Real, Mistake, Successful

  "20 Quotes From the Two Women of 'Shark Tank'" by John Brandon, www.inc.com. January 20, 2015.

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• It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, People, Giving

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.132, Routledge

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• The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.

  Mark Epstein

  Healing, Thinking, Keys

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• The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dirty, Community, Dirty Work

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2009). “Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals”, p.68, InterVarsity Press

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• The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

  Bill Drayton

  Giving, Variables, Becoming

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• The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

  Stuart Sutherland

  Light, Mind, Weakness

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• To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

  A. E. Housman

  Thinking, Brain, Pudding

  "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.

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• I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Thinking

  "Book World Live: Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Outliers'". Online Discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2008.

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• I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.

  Richard Bausch

  Writing, People, Doubt

  "Off the Page: Richard Bausch". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2003.

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• Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

  Barry Farber

  Law, Crime

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• Forgiveness and the release of the past open the creative flow of life, supporting all levels of mind, heart, body, emotion, and spirit. This energy flow determines the state of our health, our desire to create and procreate, our willingness to develop our gifts, and how we use or deny the life force that we are given as human beings. . . . by choosing to let go of the past, our fears, and our negative patterns or reactions to life, we are suddenly funded with a resurgence of life force, which propels us into a newfound way of being and a very different way of understanding the world.

  Jamie Sams

  Letting Go, Heart, Past

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• We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enought, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is.

  Gangaji

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Maturity

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• Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

  Rhonda Britten

  Acceptance, Reality, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Rhonda Britten from Oct 29, 2015

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• We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

  Martin Buber

  Should, Stakes, Existence

  "Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1971.

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• From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

  Simon Schama

  Challenges, Violence, Revolution

  Simon Schama (2004). “Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution”, p.728, Penguin UK

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• Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

  George Will

  Life, Civilization, Mind Your Own Business

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• Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Business, Korea, Years

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• Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

  Brené Brown

  Broken, Capacity, Wholeheartedness

  "The Courage to Be Vulnerable". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. January 29, 2015.

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• In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Support, Listening

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• If you want to get the spirit of the gospel in your home, support the missionary program. Prepare your sons and daughters through your home evenings; through setting the proper example in your homes. Prepare to send them into the mission field. These young sons and daughters will bless your names forever if you help to make it possible through your training and your example and your willingness to sacrifice just a little, if you can call it sacrifice, to see them go into the mission field.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Home, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

  Emma Goldman

  Long, Soldier, Authority

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently. A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Men, Thinking

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• So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed! Such is the 'sacrifice unto the Lord... of a broken heart and a contrite spirit,' (D&C 59:8), a prerequisite to taking up the cross, while giving 'away all [our] sins' in order to 'know God' (Alma 22:18) for the denial of self precedes the full acceptance of Him.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Heart, Acceptance

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• The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

  Bell Hooks

  Revolution, Fierce, Progressive

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.7, Routledge

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