Brian Sutton-Smith

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

American Psychologist

Marshall Goldsmith

When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way - we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.

American Coach

Kobe Bryant

I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

American Basketball Player

Margaret Heffernan

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

American Businesswoman

John Kennedy

What I think we need to do is pass a bill that says number one, you own your data. Number two, you can license it to Facebook but the licensing has to be knowing, it has to be willful.

American Lawyer

Isaac Newton

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.

English Mathematician

Corey Stoll

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

American Actor

Amanda Seales

To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.

American Comedian

John Lloyd Young

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

Johnny Marr

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

English Musician

Using 'wilful' suggests a negative judgment about someone's actions being intentional, often related to wrongdoings.

Negative Connotation

In legal contexts, 'wilful' implies that an act was done with intention and can affect the severity of punishment.

Legal Implications

When someone's actions are described as 'wilful', it often triggers emotions like frustration or disapproval in others.

Emotional Impact

'Wilful' can describe a person who is determined to act in a particular way, without considering others' opinions.

Personal Traits

Being 'wilful' is sometimes mistakenly seen as being strong-willed, but it implies a refusal to change one's plans or consider advice.

Confusion with strength

'Wilful' in legal terms is more specific than 'intentional', indicating a deliberate decision to break the law.

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In a legal setting, acts described as 'wilful' often carry heavier consequences due to their intentional nature.

Grave Consequences

 that I would be prevented from doing anything in my life because I'm a woman. OK. So I graduate. And I start auditioning and I get work, slowly. But I just start noticing that the parts available for women are terrible. But, remember -- I came here to play smart, willful, complicated, interesting

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 and shows the ripple effect of Hamlet’s toxic mind games. Similar warning signs of tragedy are constantly overlooked throughout the play. Sometimes, these oversights occur because of willful blindness– such as when Ophelia’s father dismisses Hamlet’s alarming actions as mere lovesickness.

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 So it's the combination of the immature teen brain and the impact of habituation that is like a perfect storm to create more damaging effects. And this research can help parents and the general public understand that teens aren't just willfully ignoring warnings

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 and a thinking society. The fact is that most of the biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to,

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 and our family because it helped us change our frame of reference for what was going on with him, and worry a little bit less and appreciate his resourcefulness more. Facts are stupid things. And they're vulnerable to misuse, willful or otherwise.

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 from the best bagel place on Long Island. My father lived this life he didn't want to live, but he lived it so that I could have a dad. I stopped wondering if my dad had ever existed. He had existed -- willfully, consciously, intentionally --

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 vermin and is suffering from habitat loss and diseases brought by domestic dogs sorry domesticated domestic means not foreign vetted or willful fix this later only now are we coming to understand their intelligence and intriguing lifestyles

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 We become demotivated to learn more about how things work. We begin to opt out. Well, this problem, this challenge, is a thing that we must now confront, and I believe that when you have this kind of disengagement, this willful ignorance,

Eric Liu: Why ordinary...

 We need a way to apply international criminal laws, like war crimes or crimes against humanity, to the planet. We need a new international law of ecocide to criminalize the willful and widespread destruction of the environment,

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 We're all, under certain circumstances, willfully blind. What the research shows is that some people are blind out of fear. They're afraid of retaliation. And some people are blind because they think, well,

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