Quotes About Initiative

Action conquers fear.

Spontaneity, personal initiative, free choice - these ideals of Western society are fairy tales invented for people who don't want to admit they know better.

You have to have more leadership, less management. It's about getting stuff done, you can sit around and analyze things forever but while you do that the competition has moved on.

Section144 (of the Criminal Procedure Code) slowed, confused, sometimes deflected the independence initiative. But the cat never closed in for the kill.That was never the intention. Besides there were, if you will, too many mice.

If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.

Awareness without action is worthless.

There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened.—Anonymous

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.

Though I have worked in Bhojpuri films and had been introduced to the culture of the area, it was on visiting that region that I came to know that a lot needs to be done to improve the living conditions, and an initiative has already been made with the help of the Pardesiya Kala Sangam and Jagriti, both NGOs.

The Hyperledger Project is gaining traction on a daily basis, displaying how vital this effort is in advancing distributed ledger technology. Uniting the industry to drive this initiative forward is paramount to the success of distributed ledger technology.

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.

Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you can do. When I was an assistant, I would say to myself, 'You may not be an executive, but act like one.' I would volunteer for any creative assignment - read scripts, do 'coverage,' write notes.

Not a manager or an executive yet? It's not too early to practice. Many companies are always looking for people to volunteer to help coordinate happy hours, onboard new employees, or plan the holiday party.

The George H. W. Bush Volunteer Generation Fund will further expand the scope and effectiveness of volunteerism.

If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.

Voters want to get things done.

Seniority means nothing if you don't do anything with it.

The Shield was my idea.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.

In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

Work begets work.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.