Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
Many people who get a lot of money are willing to work with me for no money. This is true.
. . . all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.
The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be, to have the patience to start and let the work teach you, to be willing to lead when you need to lead, and to listen. To have a sense of generosity and empathy, but not over-empathy, because accountability is so critical to building solutions that work.
We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.
I have a lot of confidence in my shot and I'm willing to shoot it no matter what.
Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.
I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let creators do their thing and live or die by their own muse. They certainly allow us to do that.
With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways.
Once people know that you can spend the money and that you're willing to spend the money and that you're set up to spend the money in politics, then your threat to spend the money is as convincing as actually spending it.
No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.
How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this much to me. "
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.
