Quotes About Reluctance

Moody did not want to give up summer. She did not feel like brushing her hair every day. She did not feel like memorizing spelling words. And she did not want

He didn't want to talk to Pol. Pol would want him to go somewhere on the back of a horse.

Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.

but one thing the best leaders usually share in common, they didn't want the damn job in the first place." Then

This resistance to change is known as 'inertia' – and it is an all-too-common human trait to resist anything that might upset the status quo. Inertia always works to keep things the same, however much your heart longs for change.

i do so hate finishing books. i would like to go on with them for years.

As a society we are embarrassed by love. We treat it as if it were an obscenity. We reluctantly admit to it. Even saying the word makes us stumble and blush . . . Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly. —DIANE ACKERMAN

Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic. Yet young listeners remain reluctant to embrace the idea of love as a transformative force.

When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He

I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.

I didn't even know what 'The Voice' was, but my mom said, 'I signed you up for this singing show,' and I was like, 'All right, I guess.'

Institutional buildings act as if they were designed specifically to prevent change for the organization inside and to convey timeless reliability to everyone outside. When forced to change anyway, as they always are, they do so with expensive reluctance and all possible delay. Institutional buildings are mortified by change.

Dimisit, invitus, invitam

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

That ought to do it.' He stood up and held out his hand to her, but she ignored it, rolling over so that she could sit on the grassy knoll. He stood there awkwardly until she patted the spot on the grass next to her. He hesitated, and Belle finally groaned and slapped her down on the ground with considerable force. 'Oh, please,' she said in a semi-irritated voice. 'I'm not going to bite.' John sat down.

Initially, I didn't want to watch 'The Dirty Picture.'

Deep down inside, I am lazy.

I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.

involved." Decker paused. "I hate to say

The Innovator's Dilemma, by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. Christensen wrote that great companies fail not because they want to avoid disruptive change but because they are reluctant to embrace promising new markets that might undermine their traditional businesses and that do not appear to satisfy their short-term growth requirements.

Und so sagte ich ihr, dass ich ihrem Daddy wehtun müsste, damit wir fliehen könnten, und da trat ein Ausdruck in ihre Augen, den ich gut kannte. Denn trotz ihrer Wohlanständigkeit mochte Quilla June ihren gottesfürchtigen Daddy nicht besonders gern.

At 15, I refereed my first match, and I was training at my dad's school even prior to that, so the only thing that I was concerned about - I guess the only thing that made me reluctant and was the reason I was in L.A. and the reason I went to acting school - was I thought maybe I wasn't big enough - physically big enough - to compete with WWE.