You cannot evolve unless you are willing to change.
Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.
The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.
I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.
I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!
All good ideas are terrible. . . Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.
A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff. . . forms a base on which to build something better.
Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.
A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for
We gotta be willing to seek direction. . . we've gotta be willing to look within.
Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.