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Definition of Reluctance
Reluctance

Magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux.

Alt. of Reluctancy

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Reluctance Quotations

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
David Ogilvy

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
Dick Cavett

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Jean Racine

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
Gustav Mahler

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.
Colin Mochrie

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.
Todd Barry

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.
Janis Karpinski

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.
William Lyon Phelps

Reluctance Translations

reluctance in German is Widerstreben


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