Willingness Quotes · Page 13

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

— Rolf Potts

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

— Ron Paul

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

— B. F. Skinner

Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown

— Anonymous

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

— Edward Glaeser

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

— John Cleese

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

— Sydney J. Harris

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

— Anthony Bourdain

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how…

— Tina Fey

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really…

— Sharon Salzberg

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend…

— John Charles Polanyi

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints…

— Ziggy Marley

“Going through the motions might get the job done, but the change we seek cannot be defined by a checkmark on some…

— Marta Mrotek

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This…

— Ashton Kutcher

With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder…

— Terry Eastland

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most…

— Richard Bausch

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on…

— Glenn Greenwald

Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything.…

— Floyd McClung

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks…

— Emma Thompson

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools…

— Gwee Li Sui

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

— Seth

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Casey Neistat

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

— Fred Saberhagen

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.”

— Pratik Akkawar

“Determination and willingness can change the situation when we are distructed”

— Kishore Bansal

The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive

— Mike Murdock

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

— Sam Altman

Willingness comes from understanding that every action has consequences, as does every failure to act.

— Anonymous

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

— Mick Foley

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

— Barbara Jordan

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

— Cheri Huber

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

— Pat Summitt

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

— Nikolay Konstantinov