Unwilling – Quotes

The incompetent leading the

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary. Evan Wright

Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family’s access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance. Eric Ries

There is no such

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured. Epicurus

But certainly in Uganda,

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don’t really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders – some of them – up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use Emma Thompson

At the door, there

At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to … Read more

I wondered why I

I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling. Emily Giffin

I think that whether

I think that whether you’ve just begun writing or whether you’ve been writing for fifty years – I mean, I’m excited to get there and tell you about it when I do – I think that there’s always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken … Read more

Fear can supplant our

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude. Emile M. Cioran

The unwilling mind is

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind. Ellen Swallow Richards

If we hold tightly

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily \”ours\” but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to … Read more