Second is the willingness to spend.
Her hefty contemporary program -- Judith Weir's "Music for 247 Strings," Isang Yun's Violin Sonata, Lutoslawski's Partita and works by Gyorgy Kurtag and Alexander Goehr -- suggests a willingness to leave the instant crowd pleasers behind and take some chances.
Studies have revealed a deep capacity for empathy, a willingness to trust others and become instant best friends; and an equally strong urge to punish cheaters, to exact revenge against those who buck group rules for private gain.
The article discusses two instant measures of affective value of information objects: Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) and Experienced Utility (EU).
A helping hand helps, but so do self-reliance, a strong back, a willingness to learn and an understanding that instant gratification is not in the cards, regardless of what Madison Avenue preaches.
Its downturn is due to a combination of vigorous and ubiquitous competition, a terrible economic climate, a lust for instant gratification and the brand's enduring lack of willingness to really assert itself in the public eye.
The integrity and prosperity of professional tennis hangs in the balance of the governing body's willingness to continue to evolve the checks and balances afforded by instant replay.
This is a lesson that acupuncture teaches us, since it requires an investment of time and a willingness to let go of the assumption that good medicine must provide instant gratification.
Inspired by the runaway success of peer-to-peer VoIP provider Skype (and by eBay's willingness to pay $2.6 billion to acquire it) they'll push hard to promote the voice calling features of their instant messaging software, and then embed VoIP in everything from search results to Web auctions.
His willingness to attack.
