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41 " In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!'The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be killed - on a massive scale is responsible for a lot of solutions. The most recent mass application of violence liberated Kuwait. The most recent mass application of violence on a global scale alone cleansed the world of the Third Reich. Nonviolence and passive resistance did less than nothing to stop Hitler and his henchmen. The Atlantic slave trade wasn't stopped by 'dialogue' or 'passive resistance' or conferences, but by the opened gunports of the Royal Navy; Dachau and Chang-I weren't liberated with pamphlets. "
― Markham Shaw Pyle
42 " The Vikings could have been saved if they had borrowed survival strategies from the Inuit, but the only record we have of contact between the two peoples is the remark from a Viking settler that the Inuit bleed a lot when stabbed - an observation that hardly indicates a willingness to learn from their northern neighbors. "
― Johnjoe McFadden , Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
43 " And when you love people, you hate the fact that they’re being treated unfairly. You tell the truth. You sacrifice your popularity for integrity. There is a willingness to give your life back to the people given that, in the end, they basically gave it to you, because we are who we are because somebody loved us anyway. "
― Cornel West
44 " The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it. "
― Cassandra Clare , Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
45 " The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship "
― Asa Don Brown , Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
46 " Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand. "
― Jonathan Haidt , The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
47 " Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability - a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions. "
― , Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
48 " Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act. "
― , Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
49 " We have to start with recognition of the issue, confession that it exists, and a willingness to change. The fundamental problem is that white people who own the system as it is now do not allow the absence of black people to bother them." " It has not dawned on enough whites that the real issue is the integrity of the gospel itself and, consequently, the integrity of our witness to the rest of the world-where the majority is blessedly nonwhite. "
50 " Critical thinking helps us to more clearly understand situations, patients, colleagues, and our agendas, negative emotions, attitudes, motivations, talents, and growing edges. This not only helps us to have a greater grasp of reality but also stops the drain of psychological energy that is necessary to be defensive or to protect our image. Because critical thinking is not natural, although we may think it is for us, it takes discipline, a willingness to face the unpleasant, and a stamina that allows one not to become unduly frustrated when we do not achieve results as quickly as we prefer with respect to our insights and growth. "
51 " Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past. "
― Sarah Domet , The Guineveres
52 " A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice. "
53 " Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach — see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience — is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions. "
― Nick Bostrom
54 " Given the obstacles to merging these fragile and diverse forms of storytelling into a single tale, it is, paradoxically, by venturing in the opposite direction -- by listening for the silences between accounts; by discovering what each genre of recordkeeping cannot tell us -- that we can capture most fully the human struggle to understand our elusive past. What this past asks of us in return is a willingness to recount all our stories -- our darkest tales as well as our most inspiring ones -- and to ponder those stories that violence has silenced forever. For until we recognize our shared capacity for inhumanity, how can we ever hope to tell stories of our mutual humanity? "
― Karl Jacoby , Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
55 " I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. "
― Brandon Boyd
56 " A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished. "
― Carrie Newcomer , A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays
57 " America is a willingness of the heart. "
58 " Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. "
59 " Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. "