“For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.” WorldViewsModernWillingWallHorribleScrewsHorrible ThingsPompousScrew YouWilling To Change Author:Jean Pigozzi
“A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.” IfsSoulUseFacesUniverseGrowthViewsWillingHappeningsOptimismEncouragementAdversityPoint Of ViewOptimisticFabricWoven Author:Joan Z. Borysenko
“The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.” PeopleIfsRealityViewsHonestWillingWho You AreBeing HonestBeing YourselfBe Who You Are Author:Rudy Giuliani
“You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.” LooksIdeasStrongViewsWilling Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.” IfsViewsWillingWindowCustomersOrganizedDepartmentHatsEtcOwnersComplaintsCleaningBetter OffSmall BusinessSalesmanCleanersBusiness OwnersSmall Business OwnersBookkeepers Author:Tony Evans
“Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.” DifferentStatesGovernmentAbleFormLawJusticeViewsCommonVirtueShareWillingCitizensEqualAdvantageGoverningForms Of GovernmentCommon GoodBeing Equal Book:Politics Source: Politics
“Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.” IfsTryingLooksKindPhilosophyShowsGivenViewsRightsOne ThingWillingEqualArgumentCommittedPoint Of ViewGuiltyEqual RightsInconsistentFlourishingInconsistencyIncoherence Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.” MovingSidesChangeViewsWillingHigherPoint Of ViewBoth SidesWilling To Change Book:Magic of Conflict Source: Magic of Conflict
“If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.” IfsLongStoriesActorsViewsWillingDirectorsPoint Of ViewProducersHats Author:Michael Eklund
“Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.” MenHas BeensSelfFactsAmericaPoliticalPoliticsNationsViewsDestinyRiskWillingAdventureTruth IsDrawsBuiltOptimismRoseStriveGlassesShouldersConclusionPoisonDelusionLogicalPessimismRealisticBusinessmanOptimistPessimistPossessingSelf DelusionColored GlassRose Colored Glasses Author:B. C. Forbes
“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.” IfsGivingSaidLyingPresidentViewsHonestWillingOfficePercent Author:Joe Biden
“We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.” PeopleIfsWorldDifferentRealitySeemsMightLyingRealizingInterestingViewsWillingEasierMadPoint Of ViewIgnorantIdeologyOur WorldTunnelsSomething InterestingDifferent Realities Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience.” PeopleSelfFoundViewsResponsibilityAdviceWillingIncreaseGuiltCriticalPoint Of ViewAccountabilityCompassionateFeedbackPersonal ResponsibilityResearchersPersonal Failure Author:David D. Burns
“In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.” OrderViewsInfluenceWillingPoint Of ViewInfluential Author:Bill Crawford
“My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.” ShouldStatesDoneJobsViewsCompanyWillingInvestmentAccomplishManagersDepartmentEtcProposeCounselorBrokersGet The Job Done Author:Warren Buffett
“I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingBelievePersonsSaidI BelieveMy OwnViewsWillingGiving UpSecurePrivacyZeroEncryption Author:Tim Cook
“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
“[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.” ViewsWillingImportanceSakeThinkerConventionsImmense Author:Oliver D. Crisp