Willingness Quotes - page 2

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so. (Sam Harris)
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. View quote
Ralph Ellison
There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
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. View quote
A. E. Housman
Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems. View quote
T. B. Joshua
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say. View quote
Wentworth Miller
The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world. View quote
Learned Hand
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry. View quote
Salvador Dalí
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. (Mark Kingwell)
Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose. View quote
Jacques Barzun
You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don't work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work. View quote
John Backus
The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term. View quote
Eugene Odum
We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems. View quote
Abhijit Banerjee
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' View quote
Ashton Kutcher
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. View quote
Barbara Sher
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice. View quote
Brian Herbert
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. (Gerald Jampolsky)
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility. View quote
Yehuda Berg
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively. View quote
Yehuda Berg
Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try. View quote
Atul Gawande
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness "to act alone," its willingness to be everybody's enemy. View quote
Wendell Berry