#willingness

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#being #being famous #certain #famous #field

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life. ↗

— Scott Glenn

#basic #became #i #life #live

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#back #budget #campaign #certainly #compromise

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#between #diplomatic #discussion #every #every nation

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#difficulty #greatest #produce #share #unwillingness

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content. ↗

— Kristina Halvorson

#deliver #promise #role #roles #strategy

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#believe #civilized #doubt #men #proportion

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#own #sincerity #spend #willingness

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source