“I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country — or maybe forty-four in a row. But that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.” PeopleFeelsBelieveIdeasCountryHardChristianAmericaPresidentTakenGreaterFourWillingOne DayEqualGods WillFortyEstablishmentEntitledPersecutionPersecuted Author:Jon Stewart
“I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.” NextAsksLossAnswersTakenWillingMovedFinalsStuckQuestioningRight QuestionsWhy Me Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.” IfsThinkingKnowsMatterAbilityTakenWillingListeningExpertsWillingnessWorthwhileWrong Things Author:Raghuram Rajan
“It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability. Nobody is afraid that the money they place in the US is at risk of expropriation or of in some other way being taken away. For this safety, the wealth holders of the world are willing to accept a lower rate of return.” PeopleWorldWayCountryPoliticalWealthAcceptingTakenRiskSecurityWillingReturnSafetyRateAttractiveInstabilityPolitical Instability Author:Milton Friedman
“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?” WorldWealthBreakStruggleTakenRightsWillingDemandAmbitionSlaveWorkersGravesChainsHeightSubmissionCradleParasitesEconomic InequalityLabour Day Author:Joe Hill
“I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.” GoalLosesTakenWillingPicksSightDown AndDiscouragedBumpsBruisesKnocked DownPick Yourself Up Author:Jermaine O'Neal
“I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.” WayShouldChildrenDoneMotherFatherChallengesChanceMy OwnAnswersTakenWillingGrewGrew UpInstinctWitOnly Child Author:Teddy Pendergrass
“What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constriction of civil liberties, mobility within the country, the ability to travel overseas, all of those things we have long taken for granted.” ThinkingLongCountryFacesMovingAbilityLibertyTakenWillingScaredGrantedCivil LibertiesTaken For GrantedMobility Author:Michael Scheuer
“America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'” BelieveMatterProblemAmericaTakenWillingEvolutionBirthFewerPollsAnniversary Author:Kenneth R. Miller