Quotes About Initiative

socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of its $50 million initiative

visionary behind the Digital Media and Learning Initiative. This project would not have

This has been a collective project from the beginning, and so our first acknowledgment goes to all those who supported and contributed. Funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as part of its initiative on Digital Media and Learning, we thank Constance

visionary behind the Digital Media and Learning Initiative. This project would not have been conceived, let alone

Diving in IS testing the water.

Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.

Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it's officially known, is the product of three private organizations, two of which have official-sounding names: the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The third private group is Achieve Inc., which boasts on its Web page that it helped take the idea of nationalized learning standards from "a radical proposal into a national agenda.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle," she said patiently, "you don't send somebody to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

Do you fear doing it? You haven't started feeling the effect of not doing it.

The concern is not that there are many people and few opportunities. It is, there are many opportunities but there are few people who seize them.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

TYLER FORD: A tiger team? What's that?          HANK: Oh, sorry. It's a group of people that are put together to solve a problem that no particular unit in the company is responsible for. So the boss picks a

number of people, throws the problem their way, and says, "Don't bother me again until you have a solution." That's a tiger team. Get what I'm saying?

Laziness is not a handicap — park somewhere else!

It is only the first step that is difficult.

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

You don't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it— Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. —Goethe

Be an entrepreneur at work. An "entre-ployee." Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value—any value—to somebody, anybody, and watch that value compound into a career.

Thinking keeps the adventures of life bottled in your head. Action makes you a hero.

But only you can act to change the world with your ideas. If