Quotes About Initiative

I can see that he is capable of doing it because he has made a great deal of decisions in a short space of time.

Guardiola believed in handing greater responsibility to the footballers, trusting that their intuition could help solve a great amount of their problems. As a coach, Pep remained true to this idea and was determined to let his charges take the initiative.

always accumulate more players than your rival right from the start of a move to gain the initiative. So, having three players near the ball if the other team have two, or four players if they have three.

A key piece of advice from Hermosillo was to have faith in oneself. He would often tell Guillermo, "If a road is not presented, you build one.

Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.

From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal initiative being ever called into play.

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round-table discussions and giving everybody a fair and equal chance to foul things up for him. You know as well as I do that that's undemocratic.

Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Don't wait for the right moment to start. "Don't wait for things to happen. And do not fear failure but rather fear of not trying.

Cowboy-Up is a way of Life. What this country needs are more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

Instead of worrying about what could go wrong get up off your ass and do it.

Three rules of thumb to remember....."Get Up, Get Out and Go Get it Done.

Be the person that will take the first step towards the other side of the window, living life instead of just thinking about it.

You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. What you waiting for.?

Don't wait for the right moment to start. "Don't wait for things to happen. Don't fear failure but rather fear of not trying. And never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

and began making coffee without asking permission.

Leadership has an impact on people's commitment, their desire to stay or leave, their willingness to put forth more discretionary effort, and their inclination to take personal initiative and responsibility. Bad leaders have a dampening effect on these things, and exemplary leaders have just the opposite effect. What sort of difference do you want to achieve through your leadership? The choice is yours.

Don't wait for change. You change.

So the first thing we're gonna do, I told him, is push you off the roof.