#reluctant

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#comes #dealing #difficult #get #give

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#about #being #british #british government #clarification

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#because #i #particular #people #question

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#into #knowledge #lover #reluctant #shallow

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ↗

— Pythagoras

#difficult #easy #nothing #reluctantly #you

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things. ↗

— Sally Ride

#i #name #reluctant #secret #things

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#collaborative #dig #everyone #feel #get

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. ↗

— Davy Jones

#how #i #interpret #interviews #misleading

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. ↗

— David Simon

#baltimore #cities #city #convict #criminal

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. ↗

— John Sladek

#collections #disguised #most #novels #often