“If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn?” PeopleIfsTurnsSpeakRightsWillingSpeaks Out Author:Chris Kluwe
“The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.” PeopleDifferencesSuccessfulWillingSuccessful PeopleUnsuccessful Book:The Compound Effect Source: The Compound Effect
“When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsCharacterStoriesUnderstandingLordFantasyFansWillingShotsRingsPeterScopeFellowshipFellowship Of The RingTrilogies Author:Duncan Jones
“For me, success is when I'm making a contribution and fully engaging all of my talents. In terms of the key quality, it's being willing to continue to believe in yourself even when other people don't, and being able to fail and to come back.” PeopleBelieveAbleTermQualityFailingTalentWillingKeysContributionBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouEngaging Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“During my campaign, I had come across a small number of (mostly) young men, who had strongly racist views. They told me they would only vote for a party that was willing to get rid of black and coloured people from this country. What struck me as strange is that they weren't bothered about the thousands of white Europeans arriving from Central and Eastern Europe.” PeopleMenCountryYoungBlackWhiteViewsPartyNumbersStrangeWillingEuropeVoteCampaignsYoung ManRacistEasternBotheredArrivingSmall NumbersEastern Europe Author:Andrea Leadsom
“If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.” PeopleIfsWantWilling Author:Sharon Gannon
“I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.” PeopleWorldMayEnoughShowsSoundSimpleLove YouWillingProfoundPeacefulGenerousCompassionateSay AnythingCorny Author:Richard Brancatisano
“I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.” PeopleMatterPoorPovertySacrificeWilling Author:Kumi Naidoo
“I understand it. People are very willing to say things about me, to make accusations about me that are - I don't get upset about them anymore, but they are very regrettable.” PeopleWillingUpsetAccusation Author:Hillary Clinton
“The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.” PeopleGivingLooksChildrenMadeAblePoliticalProcessRightsImpossibleSacrificeAchieveMovementWillingGiving UpOrdinaryOur ChildrenCivil RightsBotherYour ChildrenOur FutureOrdinary PeopleYour FutureCivil Rights Movement Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“You can't just think that you will get a job for no good reason... And I think that the other part is you have to work your way up, you know I did a lot of Xeroxing and getting coffee...I always did what I was asked to do. I delivered. People knew that I would get things done and get them done well. And that is a big part of our resumes, are based on being responsible and being willing to do what needed to be done.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWellsReasonDoneBigsJobsWillingNeededResponsibleCoffeeThings DoneBeing ResponsibleResumes Author:Madeleine Albright
“Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.” PeopleIfsArtistWillingDutyCall Of DutyAbove And Beyond Author:Tori Amos
“The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love.” PeopleWorldProblemSpiritualOpportunityInspireWillingPerspectiveObstaclesPerceiveAssignments Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“In the past people would say, "I can only do this world-class snowboarding if I have a helicopter." Actually, if you're committed to it, willing to put a bunch of energy into it, then you can do it under your own power.” PeopleIfsWorldI CanPastEnergyCan DoClassThis WorldWillingCommittedBunchYou Can Do ItHelicoptersWorld ClassSnowboarding Author:Jeremy Jones
“One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, "You know what? I think I can make this a little better and I'm willing to get in and try." Because, I'll tell you, there are a hell of a lot of reasons to stay away from running for office today.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingLittlesI CanReasonRunningTodayHellWillingOfficeAbsolutesRunning For OfficeReason To Stay Author:Roger Ailes
“What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.” PeopleShouldWellsMayFactsFacesWillingProtectClimateHardship Author:Walter Munk
“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.” PeopleCountryWould BeMovingLyingWaterNumbersAcceptingMillionsHeardWillingLowsHundredAreasOver YouSuggestionsLarge Numbers Author:Walter Munk
“I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsI CanReasonHelpingGovernmentAbleNumbersTechnologyWillingIdealsPrizeMapsFrankEgyptPromotingNobelScience And TechnologyNobel Prize Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.” PeopleChildrenFiveFourWifeWillingMy WifeMy ChildrenPlusGreat PeopleAmends Author:Richard Patrick
“Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"” PeopleIfsWantSometimesMovingBrainComedyWillingMaterialsPrideComputerMoving ForwardNew Things Author:Sarah Silverman
“The little details really connect for people in ways I never realized before.I think that's why some of the movies have done well, because people are relating to things that I'm willing to expose.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLittlesDoneWillingDetails Author:Judd Apatow
“People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term guarantees of yore, they're willing to job hop to find the right fit.” PeopleKindLongAgeJobsYoungValuesSocialTermWillingFitLong TermGuaranteesHopsSocial Values Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives.” PeopleThinkingYoungBlackRiskMovementWillingComfortSafetyCrucialDedicationUnwavering Author:Nate Powell
“People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.” PeopleProblemWillingCivilizationSolutionsBusPointingDiscredit Author:Jay Roach
“Be generous with your colleagues and your competitors. When people learn that they do well whenever they work with you, they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities.” PeopleWellsOpportunityWillingGenerousColleaguesCompetitors Author:Mark M. Ford
“Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.” PeopleWillingRelevantIntuitiveFeedbackDiagnosis Author:Daniel Kahneman
“I'm still amazed at how much people are willing to humiliate themselves to be on TV.” PeopleStillsWillingTvsAmazedHumiliate Author:Padma Lakshmi
“I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger.” PeopleGivingYearsIdeasNumbersWillingRewardsStrangerFavorsKidneys Author:Sally Satel
“Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink the ability to pay the debts, so it's all an illusion that the system can be saved. The question is, how long are people going to be willing to live in this illusion?” PeopleLongGrowsAbilityPayEconomyWillingIllusionDebtSavedShrinks Author:Michael Hudson
“What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsDoeHas BeensWholeProblemLawProcessChancePayWillingFineBecomingDrugProveTaxesWeaponsSeriesCriminalsImmigrationSecureBordersReasonableImmigrantsIllegalIllegal Immigration Author:Marco Rubio
“I think when somebody seeks mercy and forgiveness and means it, and I was with [Donald Trump] the entire time, including when he learned about this, people ought to think about that. They ought to think about when somebody asks you for forgiveness contrite and for mercy - are you willing to give it?” PeopleThinkingGivingMeanAsksWillingOughtTrumpMercyIncludingMercy And Forgiveness Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.” PeopleKindUseSidesDifferencesWillingFoolSlogansPopulist Author:Akbar Ganji
“People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing or for routine appointments in the executive branch to go unfilled for years because of a hold placed by a senator.” PeopleYearsGovernmentImpossibleWillingCourtCongressHearingSupremeBranchesExecutivesRoutineSenatorsSupreme CourtAppointmentsExecutive Branch Author:George Packer
“Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.” PeopleWillingTrumpRepublicanOfficeMessagesVoteCandidates Author:Steve Inskeep
“You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.” PeopleUseSpaceWillingDrawsClean Author:Bette Midler
“Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingKindStuffBitsDifficultPerfectPlansFeetWillingCome UpActivistSchooledWilling To Try Author:Duncan Green
“In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.” PeopleShouldWarRealCountryHelpingWillingCivil War Author:Van Jones
“What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsYearsProblemTodayAmericaWaitingBlackRealizingWhiteFiveWillingHundredFive YearsBlack PeopleWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.” PeopleKnowsViolenceWillingAmbitionBlameStrikesFrustrationCrushedDissatisfaction Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I hope people appreciate Chancellor Merkel because, although she traditionally is considered center-right and I'm considered center-left, the truth is that we share those core values, and those are worth protecting. As the senior leader in Europe, as the leader who's been longest lasting, I think she has great credibility, and she is willing to fight for those values. I'm glad that she's there, and I think the German people should appreciate her. Certainly, I have appreciated her as a partner.” PeopleThinkingShouldValuesFightingLeftLeaderShareWillingTruth IsEuropeAppreciatePartnersCoreGladLastingSeniorAppreciatedCredibilityCore Values Author:Barack Obama
“I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsShowsJobsAsksChanceRiskWillingHostControversialTalk Shows Author:Andrew Weil
“If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.” PeopleIfsTryingInterestActingLibertyWillingBalanceModelsTraditionMethodWesternContraryAlternativesExtrasWestern Society Author:Edward Snowden
“As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.” PeopleMomentsSocialGrowsStreetsWillingWallIncreaseRegardInequalityTensionProtestThat MomentFraternityOccupy Wall Street Author:Edward Snowden
“Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.” PeopleEnoughProblemAmericaOrderBlackSacrificeWillingIncludingTelling The TruthProgressiveBlack PeoplePopularity Author:Cornel West
“I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you were doing a play or you were reading a script of a movie, you would have the best possible material. And those are the people who score, the people who are willing to listen to the roasting experts and then come out there and own that material.” PeopleIfsThinkingPlayReadingTelevisionWillingMaterialsScriptsExpertsScoreUnfairRoasting Author:Jeff Ross
“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.” PeopleWayGivingShowsAbleFrontsWillingLike YouListeningLessonsLogicNotesStatementsSpotsHatsLecturesBabblingBuckminster Fuller Author:Paul Laffoley
“Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood elites are so out of touch when it comes to keeping you, the American people, safe from radical Islamic terrorism, and they are willing to gamble with your life.” PeopleMediaWillingSafeHollywoodDemocratTerrorismRadicalIslamicElitesMainstreamGambleMainstream MediaIslamic Terrorism Author:Sean Hannity
“Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.” PeopleTryingHelpingUseFacesPoliticalCertainFightingOpinionWillingBattleMassBlueDetailsCriticalStrikesAdvertisingCorporateSparksNutsBiasUnfairSeductionPublic OpinionAccusingCritical Mass Author:Bill Moyers
“What you have in President Trump is someone who is willing to, and is, in fact, engaging the world, including Russia, and saying, where can we find common interests that will advance the security of the American people, the peace and prosperity of the world? And he is determined to come at that in a new and renewed way.” PeopleWorldWayFactsPresidentInterestCommonSecurityWillingTrumpIncludingProsperityDeterminedRussiaEngagingCommon Interests Author:Mike Pence
“I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.” PeopleIfsTermSawsWillingRegretWeaponsAlsChemicalsSyriaAssessmentAssadDon't RegretChemical WeaponsBashar Al Assad Author:Barack Obama