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• Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

  Gordon Allport

  Thinking, Comforting, Intellectual

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• Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Democracy, Steps

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• I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

  Theaster Gates

  Opportunity, Thinking

  "Conversation With Theaster Gates: On Finding the Sweetest Fodder for His Imagination". Interview with Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2014.

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• There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Definitions, Criticize

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• The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

  Emile Hirsch

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  Interview with Filip Vukcevic, www.ign.com. September 19, 2007.

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• A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.

  Christine Caine

  Mistake, Commitment, Risk

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Feb 14, 2015

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• There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

  Pema Chodron

  Trying, Patterns, Alive

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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• Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.

  Rhonda Britten

  Desire, Claims, Ability

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• In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears.

  Rhonda Britten

  Order, Ideas, People

  FaceBook post by Rhonda Britten from Oct 02, 2015

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• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Wall, Years, Enemy

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• If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is
  suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A
  willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

  John Stott

  Suffering, Church, Firsts

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• The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average.

  Benjamin Graham

  Average, Sound, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Self, Goal

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Opportunity, Odds

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• Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means that I shall try to really understand why they behave as they do, even though it injures me. It is a willingness to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins before I criticize his conduct. It is the extension of good will, help, forgiveness, compassion and kindness to one who may not seem to deserve it.

  W. Phillip Keller

  Kindness, Mean, Adversity

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• The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

  Chester Bowles

  Attitude, Reason, Characteristics

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• As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

  Casey Neistat

  Guiding Principles, Risk, Assuming

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• Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

  Brad Warner

  Compassion, Needs, Ability

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  Elihu Root

  Justice, Rehabilitation, Discussion

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

  Howard Raiffa

  Art, Giving Up, Successful

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Expectations, Faster

  "Lift Me UP! Service with a Smile: World-Class Quips and Action Tips to Brighten Up Your Services!". Book by Ron Kaufman, May 14, 2005.

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• There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Fundraising, Helping, Chef

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• They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader.

  Dave Hunt

  Loyalty, Religious, Leader

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• Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Attitude, Heart

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• Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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