#willing

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

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

— John W. Gardner

#failure #learning #less #people #reasons

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#general #i #just #life #more

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. ↗

— Bill Gates

#money #often #private #risks #take

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#statesman #take #true #who #willing

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#few #few things #long #things #willing

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#certainly #country #cover #get #i

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting. ↗

— Laura Linney

#exciting #god #long #long period #me

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that. ↗

— Shelley Long

#care #i #like #me #men