Quotes of: Willingness Keyword

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

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Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

M. Scott Peck

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

Ron Fournier

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Barbara Sher

I'm willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.

Brad Schneider

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

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

The willingness to always make each day count productively is what massive success is truly made of.

Edmond Mbiaka

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Gerald Jampolsky

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

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Jeff Goodell

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

Michael Patrick King

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Wayne Dyer

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Madeleine Peyroux

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

Rachel Nichols

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

House Harkonnen

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Ralph Ellison

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

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