I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.
Clay Aiken

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Brian Greene

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
Lynn Abbey

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippmann

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Nicolas de Chamfort

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
Ben Stiller

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Denis Diderot

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.
Alex Lifeson

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
Samuel Morse

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Lord Chesterfield

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter

They were willing to do anything to stop me.
Wilt Chamberlain

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham