#willing

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#common #common ground #discovering #enough #find

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#always #around #attention #dead #everything

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#armed forces #best #critical #ensure #forces

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#actually #am #being #character #color

They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#accident #back #competitors #deal #everybody

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#anything #good #i #i think #important

I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover. ↗

— Uday Hussein

#am #body #conduct #doctors #french

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #both #bush #carefully #combined

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#advanced age #age #even #fair #few

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#change #i #willing