Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

British Musician

Madonna Ciccone

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

American Musician

James Patterson

There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.

American Author

Oliver Sykes

But I can't stress enough how much talking helps. I was so reluctant at first; I didn't think it would help. But even if there's no answer to your troubles, they will seem so much smaller once they leave your head.

English Musician

Patrick Lencioni

What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.

American Writer

Corazon Aquino

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Statesman

Laura Marling

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

Lyle Lovett

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

German Philosopher

Stewart Udall

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

American Politician

Reluctant can carry an emotional tone, implying a struggle between desire and duty.

Emotional Weight

'Reluctant' doesn't mean refusal but indicates some resistance or doubt.

Not Negative

It may suggest a presence of external pressure or persuasion to act.

Subtle Pressure

Focuses on reluctance due to fear of negative consequences.

Fear of Outcomes

Implies a careful or cautious approach to a decision or action.

Cautious Approach

Groups or entities can be reluctant, not just individuals.

Reluctance in Groups

Objects or mechanisms can be described as reluctant, meaning slow to operate or respond.

Non-Human Reluctance

Can refer to a literal physical response or motion that is delayed or hesitant.

Literal Movement

 bones and he said oh i sold these to an italian man suddenly it seemed much more likely that this was the man who had found the partial spinosaurus that now lay in the basement of the italian museum nazar asked the man to show him where he'd found the fossil but the mustache man was reluctant he didn't think there were any more bones

The Strange Tail of...

 as governments that profit from registering anonymous companies are reluctant to lose business. And some of the most popular places for this practice are located not on remote, tropical tax shelters, but within the same advanced nations which claim to be leading the fight for global financial transparency.

How exposing anonymous...

 and your character is called into question. So nonprofits are really reluctant to attempt any brave, daring, giant-scale new fundraising endeavors, for fear that if the thing fails, their reputations will be dragged through the mud. Well, you and I know when you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

The way we think about...

 were somehow imbued with the essence of their former celebrity owners. For similar reasons, many of us are reluctant to part with family heirlooms which help us feel connected to lost loved ones. These beliefs can even alter our perception of the physical world and change our athletic abilities.

Why are we so attached...

 After much pressure from human rights groups, the dictator reluctantly agrees to let you visit the island and speak to the prisoners under the following you may only make one statement, and you cannot tell them any new information. What can you say to help free the prisoners

Can you solve the...

 that box it's a totally different world mum has a total of five reluctant youngsters to try to coax into an uncertain future any time you deal with captive animals you're going to see not only the births which are very exciting

Adorable Baby Animal...

Baby Ferret Training...

 outside of their home in a remote community in the highlands with her husband's encouragement she delivered their seventh child in a new clinic nearby mama had been reluctant to do so for many reasons she had delivered all

Caring for maternal...

 Reluctantly, the youth knocked on the rotting door. The devil’s grandmother answered his call. She was known to help some visiting souls, and harm others.

The tale of the boy who...

 reluctantly the chicks take a few nervous steps towards the edge encouraged by a gentle nudge

Reluctant

Emotional Weight

Not Negative

Subtle Pressure

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