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Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. -- Demi Moore
Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within. -- Jim Elliot
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. -- Sol Stein
I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life. -- Scott Glenn
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. -- Roy L. Smith
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. -- William Feather
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face. -- Tim Wise
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. -- Tom Clancy
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. -- Steven Pinker
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings. -- Edmund Phelps
It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology. -- John Sununu
I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data. -- Jeremy Grantham
Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right. -- Jennifer Granholm
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill. -- Stanley Hauerwas
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders. -- Gary Hamel
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. -- Eric Alterman
The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter. -- Mary Landrieu
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. -- Winston Churchill
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone. -- Denise Mina
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence. -- Roxane Gay
God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness. -- Jesse Duplantis
The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure. -- Nikki Giovanni
Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. -- Carl Jung
All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness. -- Clive James
One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness. -- Ignatius of Loyola
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency. -- James C. Collins
Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth. -- Shannon L. Alder
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. -- Samuel Richardson
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego. -- Edgar Mitchell
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. -- Hu Shih
The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives. -- Larry Burkett
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream. -- Laurence Overmire
...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing. -- Ian Caldwell
Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels. -- Heather Armstrong
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. -- Sydney J. Harris
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort. -- Orison Swett Marden
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues. -- Archibald Marwizi
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so. -- Sam Harris
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men. -- Harold Laski
Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action. -- Alan Cole
I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
However, President Obama's unwillingness to attend the Paris march is a personal failing on his part that I believe does damage to the pride and soul of the nation he leads. -- Rick Ungar
Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. -- Douglas Coupland
The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals -- Carol Shields
Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation. -- Stephanie Mills
Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves. -- Edward Hirsch
People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you. -- Archibald Marwizi
I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development. -- Russell L. Ackoff
We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses. -- Kyle Maynard
One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand. -- Jimmy Carter

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