Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind."
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Willing
348 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Yi Sun-sin
Admiral
"Those willing to die will live, and those willing to live will die."
Louise Hay
Author, Motivational Speaker
"If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed."
Bear Bryant
Football Coach
"There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to."
Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow."
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"You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur."
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"Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?"
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"Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!"
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"Willing is not enough, one must apply."
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"If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail."
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"The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die."
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"You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live."
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"When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better."
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"Be willing to redefine yourself every day."
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"When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you."
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"To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself."
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"Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it."
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"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."
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"Be willing that any feeling can visit your house."
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"Except he be willing, man cannot believe."
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"To live is to be willing to die over and over again."
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"A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing."
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"Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one."
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"You have to be willing to get happy about nothing."
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"I am willing to see things differently. I am willing to see love."
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