Quotes About Initiative

Every advance begins in a small way and with the individual.

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quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, they can't find them, MAKE THEM.   —George Bernard Shaw

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

You can spend your life waiting and watching for perfect moments, but sometimes you have to make one happen.

Sometimes you just have to do things

Wouldn't it be nice if life took a cue from horse racing and a gun went off when it was time for us to get moving? Life rarely sends us a signal as clear as a starter's pistol. It's up to us to recognize when it's time to just start.

The only cure for grief is action.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.

Confidence is very simple. It is the stuff that turns thoughts into action. Thoughts without action are pretty useless.

Giving users easy access to many different kinds of digital assets on the blockchain and, particularly, tokens that are linked to assets in the real world, is crucial to seeing blockchain adoption reach the next level, and I applaud Digix Global's initiative in being the first of many such projects to successfully launch.

I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one.

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.

Job hunting is a do-it-yourself activity. There is just no way around it.