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«Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.»
Author: Cesar Chavez
(Activist, Labor Organizer)
| About:
Nonviolence
| Keywords:
discussion, inaction, non, not for, patience, sacrifice, the discussion, timid, violence, weak, willingness
«One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity...»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aspect, bothered, creativity, focusing, granted, motivation, normally, process, source, taken, taken for granted, willingness
«I hope I have convinced you / the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.»
«Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.»
Author: Wayne Dyer
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
ability, allow, care, care for, choose, insistence, satisfy, themselves, willingness
«President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.»
Author: Colin Powell
| Keywords:
act on, brighter, cold war, fueled, helped, phase, President Reagan, Reagan, Spirit of America, The Cold War, usher, ushering, ushering in, ushers, usher in, willingness
«Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
amicably, Black race, congratulation, culinary, customs, depended, languages, latterly, meanest, melting pot, Puerto, Puerto Rican, races, racial, repetitively, slum, slums, The Blacks, unduly, varied, visitor, wages, willingness
«Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
date from, dating, defines, humans, irrational, lotteries, phenomenally, principle, pursuit, unlikely, willingness
«Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
defines, humans, irrational, phenomenally, pursuit, unlikely, willingness
«Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
killed, patriotism, reasons, trivial, willingness
«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
in proportion to, readiness, willingness
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