Reluctant Quotes · Page 5

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

— David Ogilvy

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

— Christopher Hitchens

People who commit crimes are generally reluctant to tell on themselves.

— Jason Whitlock

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to…

— Jennifer Westfeldt

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

— Andrew Stanton

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

— Ray Bradbury

If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

— Kate Hudson

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

— George Wendt

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how…

— Ben Affleck

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

— Walter Winchell

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

— Magnus Carlsen

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to…

— Berry Gordy

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish.…

— Alan Cumming

“Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she’d grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss…

— Gordon Cooper

I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the…

— Deborah Rhode

I'm not against international institutions that would try to tackle global warming. But the way to go, at least in the short…

— Charles Krauthammer

My dad, Winston, didn't say much. He was a very reluctant man. He came home from working at the foundry every day…

— Lenny Henry

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force;…

— Brendan I. Koerner

Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies…

— Henci Goer

I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that…

— Joan Lunden

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition,…

— Sol LeWitt

I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be…

— Frank Deford

Seems to me we move the furniture, the French come in later and put the doilies on top of it...It's a simple…

— Dennis Miller

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

— V V Brown

I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

— John I. Jenkins

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

— Davy Jones

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is…

— Franz Grillparzer

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's always a huge red flag for me when somebody's reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that…

— Ivanka Trump

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to…

— Ariel Gore

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of…

— Matt de la Pena

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't…

— Anne Donovan

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

— Charles Dickens

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Networks are reluctant to take a chance. They put on shows that they know will work on some level, but to get…

— James Burrows

I felt reluctant accepting the very lucrative and easy life Hollywood had offered me. All of it planted a seed: If I…

— Sterling Hayden

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

— Deepak Chopra

“(Via Malcolm)"...For the moment, I have this incredible gift...It just happened. I bend, whisper, sing, shout—and a radiant light surrounds and then…

— Kathleen Maher

I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot,…

— Alexander Dolgun