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“I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.”

Ifs Believe Stills Ends I Believe Democracy Tomorrow Authority West Israel Palestinian Secular Settlement Gaza Reluctance

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.”

Office Management Rewards Corporate Shareholders Extravagance Reluctance

Author:Peter Lynch

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”

“Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.”

Ifs Giving Trying Time Half Dog Bones Display Wrath Baths Reluctance

Book:The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash

“The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.”

People Years Lasts Attitude Accepting Design Tests Innovation Users Last Year Request Prevailing Reluctance Usability Web Design

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway.”

“Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.”

Perfect Quality Missing Ingredients Software Testing License Garbage Reluctance Testers

Book:Software Testing Techniques

Source: Software Testing Techniques

“There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.”

People Life Inspirational Motivational Funny Enjoy Strange Enjoy Life Reluctance

Book:A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More

Source: A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More

“Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. Thats more detrimental.”

Feelings Individual Cities Environment Wind Safe Safety Active Reluctance Detrimental

Author:Dick Powell

“...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.”

“Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.”

Process Management Change Management Reluctance

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.”

Dream Share Proud Reluctance

Author:Todd Barry

“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.”

Way Too Much Reluctance Old Ways

Book:The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day

“Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.”

People Needs Dying Comfort Aging Harm Honestly Denied Reluctance

Book:Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“All reluctance is a lack of confidence.”

Reluctance Lack Of Confidence

Author:Todd Duncan

“Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.”

Should Action Politics Security Conflict Preserves National Security Misunderstood Reluctance Forbearance

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.”

Men Easy Prayer Praying Equal Tasks Stronger Conquer Willingness Reluctance Easy Life

Author:Phillips Brooks

“Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.”

Said Grace New York Behavior Fellows Series Caught Punishment Labels Senators Colleagues Grace Of God Transactions Reluctance Sleazes

Book:Who will tell the people: the betrayal of American democracy

Source: Who will tell the people: the betrayal of American democracy

“MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.”

Moving Death Lines Martyr Reluctance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”

Way Giving Stills Pleasure Business Middle All Things Following Esteem Neglected Reluctance

Author:Samuel Pepys

“In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'”

Way Giving Faces Models Weight Mark Financial One Way Skeptical Sympathetic Reluctance

Author:Warren Buffett

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