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“It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.”

People Might Young Energy Nice Share Willing Skills

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.”

Ifs Giving Said Lying President Views Honest Willing Office Percent

Author:Joe Biden

“Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.”

Too Much Willing Politician

Author:John Templeton

“Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.”

Ifs Want Long Use Willing Tvs Exercise Gym Equipment Advertisements

Author:Mark Spitz

“I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Grows Willing Amount Bases Soil Chemicals Decrease Pumps Organic Food

Author:Gary Player

“Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."”

Firsts House Chance Accepting Novel Willing Publishing Take A Chance Manuscripts Publishing House Slush

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.”

Humans Principles Rights Willing Fundamentals Human Rights Fundamental Principles

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Eye Opportunity Willing Pursue Good Ideas Knocking Whatever It Takes Heads Up

Author:Paula Deen

“We still dislike hypocrites. It's a very American characteristic. We still like people who have ideas and who are willing to stand up for what they believe in. We're very forgiving of failures and very willing to give people a second and third chance if they mean to do better and are sorry for what they've done.”

People Ifs Giving Believe Mean Stills Ideas Done Chance Willing Thirds Forgiving Sorry Characteristics Dislike Hypocrite

Author:David McCullough

“People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.”

People Men Needs Believe Home Games Strong I Believe Social Differences Pay Willing Drink Demand Bars Bottles Bucks Cocktails Gin

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“If you are truly involved in a film and if you are going to do any kind of good work, you have to have that full commitment to the work. If you aren't willing to do that, or if that is not in your nature, I say steer clear of it.”

Ifs Kind Film Clear Willing Involved Commitment Good Work Steers

Author:Jay Cassidy

“In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.”

Way Trying Mean Said Would Be Form Term Rights Willing Approach Filmmaker Trusted They Said Seeming

Author:Sean Penn

“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Only those willing to do what the very few do will get the rewards that the very few get.”

Willing Rewards

Author:Robin Sharma

“The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?”

Writing Long Willing Unheard

Book:Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

Source: Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

“Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.”

Want Doe Willing Fairness

Author:Judith Martin

“Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.”

Feelings Love Is Willing Sentiments

Book:Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

Source: Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”

War Risk Middle Willing Conservative East Middle East Status Quo Factions Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.”

Facts Pain Process Accepting Willing Revelations

Author:Stanley Crouch

“To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.”

Firsts Moments Next Creativity Willing Hypothesis Fertile

Author:William James

“Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.”

Ifs Looks Focus Willing

Author:Marvin Minsky

“The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.”

Men Spirit Growth Willing Property Every Man Luxury Commerce

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“The Top 10 Most Effective Things That You Can Say: 1. Thank you very much. 2, You are so right. 3. How can I help you right now? 4. I ask that you ... 5. I apologize for for what has happened. 6. Why is that? 7. Are you willing to ...? 8. I love you. 9. Will you help me? 10. Yes.”

Helping Asks Happened Love You Willing Right Now Help Me Apologizing I Apologize Top 10

Author:Thomas Leonard

“If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.”

Ifs States Willing Projects Concern

Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.”

People Ends Able Fighting Justice Existence Willing Eternal Providence

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.”

Ifs Eye Today Difficult Sleep Willing Bears Europe Wake Up Threat Russia Eastern Putin Down The Road Nato Eastern Europe Blueberries Hibernation

Author:Seth Moulton

“The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.”

Answers Willing

Author:Vernon Howard

“Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.”

War Willing Waste Dignity Caring Terrorism Terrorist Commanders War On Terror Not Caring War On Terrorism

Author:David Corn

“Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries.”

People Ifs Three Waiting Hours Willing Dislike Mcdonalds Moscow Fries Willing To Wait

Author:Mark Patinkin

“Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.”

Feelings Willing Repentance

Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe they, at length, become willing to run the risk of being less free.”

War Running Political Rights Risk Security Events Willing Safe Institutions Tendencies Length Resorts Repose Political Rights Security And Liberty

Book:The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

“The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.”

People Feels Facts Government Passion Evil Names Results Common Subjects Willing Demand Authority Assuming Noble Vanity Submit Oppressed Grasping Flattered Mob Rule

Author:Polybius

“My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.”

Writing Willing Jokes Superhero Borges

Author:John Hodgman

“My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.”

People World Feels Young Dies Fighting Wish Easy Advice Willing Poet Blow Glad

Author:e. e. cummings

“Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.”

Years Has Beens Would Be Deals Class Students Willing Huge Amount Couple Skills Meetings Who I Am Cards Novelists Etc Faculty Honored Invited Lectures

Author:Neal Stephenson

“I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.”

People Needs Giving Persons Known Willing Encouragement Listeners Good Listener

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“My advice for other female directors is look for people who really appreciate your vision and are willing to genuinely support you. When it comes time to taking notes on various cuts, if you have a smart producer, listen to her notes!”

People Ifs Looks Vision Support Cutting Advice Willing Directors Smart Female Appreciate Notes Various Producers Support You Appreciate You

Author:Linda Hoaglund

“And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.”

People Mind I Can Reason Whole Facts Problem Artist Found Willing Benefits Visuals Spite Criticize Mechanism Dna Collectors Of My Mind

Author:Wangechi Mutu

“Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?”

“While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.”

Wealth Path Journey Willing Discipline Track Debt Driven Covered Consumption Modest Thorns Vines

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.”

Ifs Believe Enough Fighting Belief Strong I Believe Willing Strong Enough Not Strong Not Strong Enough

Author:Jesse Helms

“If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable.”

People Ifs Enjoy Willing

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.”

Helping Willing Vulnerable Help Me Tennessee

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.”

Mean Political Force Leader Willing Majority Political Leaders

Author:Oliver DeMille

“What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.”

Mind Humans Heart Persons Art Hard Fire Willing Hard Work Genius Gold Great Men Mentor Steel Heart And Mind Medieval Alchemy Mentoring Refiner's Fire

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.”

Bigs Government Moving Enjoy Pay Willing Program Fewer Submit Big Government Government Programs

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.”

Giving Reason Goal Willing Giving Up Guarantees Persist

Author:Brian Tracy

“I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.”

Way Actors Father Enjoy Interesting Responsibility Growing Willing Producers Evolve Complexity Relax Very Interesting Pinnacle Interesting Life

Author:Tom Cruise

“Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.”

Long Hard Able Courses Willing Commit

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“We're only here for one reason: to wake up... To realize yourself doesn't mean you are perfect as a human being. It means you are willing to bear the imperfections and not sell out to them.”

Humans Mean Reason Realizing Human Beings Perfect Willing Bears Wake Up Sells Imperfection

Author:Eli Jaxon-Bear

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