#willingness

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. ↗

— Tom Clancy

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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

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I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs. ↗

— Michael Newdow

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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts. ↗