A Quote by Peter McWilliams

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

Peter McWilliams

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Ability Creates Willingness

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Peter McWilliams
American - Writer
August 5, 1949 - June 14, 2000

The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

Peter Lynch

God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Diane Lane

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Corrie Ten Boom

My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

Shakti Gawain

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Vinod Khosla

Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.

Sergio Ermotti

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

Elliot W. Eisner

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

Robin Wasserman

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

Richard Cohen

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

Erich Fromm

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

Anna Quindlen

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Wayne Dyer

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

Donella Meadows

Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.