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.
What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. . . . people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.
I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.
While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.
God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!'
Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.
The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.
I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.
A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That goes way beyond marketing.
If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [. . . ], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.
In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.
It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.