Willing Quotes

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
Ewan McGregor

Far, Once, Needs

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye

Money, Down, Fact

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
Edward T. Hall

Thinking, Giving, Him

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
Ben Bernanke

Depression, Try, Approach

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
Robert Byrd

Away, Walk, Congress

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
Joshua Foer

Human, Lazy, Short

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.
Joel Silver

Accept, Film, Found

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
Mario Monti

Life, Future, Acting

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.
Michael Connelly

Good, Character, Important

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
Kenny Loggins

Love, Truth, Courage

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling

Life, Art, Disbelief

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
Mike Mills

Experience, Sad, Parents

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.
Mike Mills

Life, Parents, Two

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
John Hodgman

Writing, Joke, Writer

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
Phillip E. Johnson

Nature, God, Power

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!
Kristin Davis

Mean, Start, She

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
Jerzy Kosinski

Between, Write, Accept

The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
Candace Bushnell

Woman, Him, Give

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
Candace Bushnell

Love, Work, Happiness

I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
Zach Wamp

Deep, Together, Sacrifice

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.
John Pomfret

Fight, Find, Tell

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
Brandi Chastain

Work, Mind, Hard

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
Hattie McDaniel

Respect, Friends, Sincerity

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
Kate Middleton

Work, Hard, Learn

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.
Lee Haney

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
Randy West

Best, Game, Real

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
Samuel Hopkins

Hear, However, Slavery

People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.
Jon McGregor

Time, Friends, Put

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Sextus Propertius

Speak, Ill, Absent

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
Alain Robert

Life, Give, Born

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