Quotes About Initiative

It's never crowded along the extra mile

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

It is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change.

Be a doer, not a wisher, hoper or critic.

If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

Any big project in life requires action. I know this seems obvious, but a lot of people would rather buy a book.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

The enforcer takes an envelope from his side jacket pocket and drops it in one of the scummy puddles. I look at Predo. "You rehearse that move in advance? He shrugs. "Actually, not. This one has initiative.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act..It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

To coldfriend or coldfriending - Reaching out of the blue, via the internet, to a previously unknown person, for business purposes.

You might hear about "taking chances" – the real smartcraft is in "making chances..."

Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.

What a Business Strategy Should Do • Keep our focus on the customer, with an eye to the competition and the rest of the strategic environment • Provide our team with a continuing stream of options • Enable rapid switching between options • Encourage initiative at all levels—in particular, an execute-and-communicate ("shoot and scoot") mindset rather than one of ask-and-wait • Harmonize our efforts to achieve the future we have in mind.

They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

I told the others which trees to chop, where to get the mud, even though I was not the official leader. My father used to say, 'Thing like a boss, not like a worker.' He meant that it is better to use your brain and be active than to be sullen and passive, as most workers are. I worked harder than anyone in the crew because it kept my mind sharp and because it kept me from thinking about other things.

And that's what Mahudin calls our thought control...an induced hypnosis of inferiority, destroying confidence and initiative, prolonging the period of tutelage which we would like to go on forever...

I was not in any real difficulties yet; my affairs were merely going through a period of stagnation which could certainly have been overcome, at this stage, by the exercise of a little initiative. But I just couldn't summon up that initiative. I was too depressed by all the mute dislike of myself which I encountered at every twist and turn.

The structure of play absorbs the player into itself, and thus frees him from the burden of taking the initiative, which constitutes the actual strain of existence.

There's always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.

For as long as you wait for them to make the first move, you will continue to be plagued by the hidden resentments you carry inside.

When in doubt, do something.