Quotes About Willingness

If "ship early, ship often" is interpreted as the willingness to expose not-quite-feature-complete but well-tested products to the healthy pressures of real users, everybody wins. But if it is used as an excuse for shipping half-baked, flaky products; using your customers as unpaid quality-assurance staff—and counting on ever-lowering expectations of quality in a slipshod marketplace numbed by crashing TVs and bug-filled software—it is another matter entirely. Even

Dr. Neely's theory is that if you're not willing to get poked with a needle, then you're probably not sick enough to see a doctor.

A willingness to wage constant partisan combat, no matter what the issue, was an emerging requirement in the politics coming into being in the 1830s. Party

Your gaze betrays the willingness in your heart.

Christmas is not about how much you buy or what you eat or whom you visit. It is about your willingness to say, with Mary, "Here am I, Lord. Use me according to your will.

Transformation and healing always begin in a place of desire. There needs to be some deep inner willingness to take a risk on Jesus and begin again and again.

I always try to approach each role with an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow as an actor.

To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

Might it be true that half of freedom is the willingness to take it when it's offered?

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must be strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Only if you are willing to pray sincerely for God's will to be done and are willing to live the life apportioned to you will you see the breathtaking view of God that he wants you to have, through the windows he has placed in your life.

You can't help people like her unless they want to be helped. That's the first law of mental health. You know it, I know it.

In this embrace of suffering, even unto death, Bilbo is encapsulating the whole idea of life being a cross that we are called to carry willingly and indeed enthusiastically. Life is not about the pursuit of creature comforts and taking the paths of least resistance. It is about Love, which can be defined as willingly laying down our lives for others.

Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other's needs.

Many people would like a miracle, but like the man in our story, they are not willing to give up their blame and self-pity.

We have free access to God. We can go before Him anytime we want to. We don't need a special invitation. The throne room is always open, God is always home, He is never napping or on the phone. We can go boldly, expecting Him to meet our need and do it willingly and joyfully.

God is not necessarily looking for people with amazing abilities, but He searches for availability and a person who is willing to simply do whatever He asks them to do. If we will lift our hands to God and say, "I am available to do whatever You want me to do," we will have peace and joy as we journey through life.

With Him, nothing is impossible, but it also takes our cooperation and willingness through determination, obedience and hard work to develop what He has put in us.

The best thing we have learned from nearly five hundred years of contact with the American wilderness is restraint, the willingness to hold our hand: to visit such places for our souls' good, but leave no tracks.

Culture is not a plant sprouting from its seed in isolation; it is a continuous process of learning guided by curiosity along with practical needs and interests. It grows especially from a willingness to learn from what is 'other', what is strange and foreign.

Europeans are a people with little willingness to defend themselves. They are people who believe that peace treaties, appeasement, and disarmament produce peace.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Many people find the priming results unbelievable, because they do not correspond to subjective experience. Many others find the results upsetting, because they threaten the subjective sense of agency and autonomy. If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you? Anchoring

But in each step of the Passion, we don't see a Jesus who is led, but a Jesus who leads. He is the Lord of life. My friends, in our own lives, let's continue to discover the peace and power that comes through following the lead of Jesus in willing obedience.