Quotes About Initiative

Prevention of cancer should be a national goal.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

We launched our #WomenWhoWork initiative to show the world what today's modern, professional women really look like. They're invested in their careers, but they're also passionate about priorities outside the office.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

Since becoming Governor, I have made it my priority to increase employment opportunities for all Alabamians.

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don't have to wait for somebody to create a part for me or a project for me. I can just do it. And that's so great.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

We need to really be careful to not just be responsive to whatever happens with Trump, but to be proactive on things people elected us to do.

When I came up in L.A., a lot of comics produced their own shows, and so if you wanted to have a show in the city, you produced it yourself.

If you're always waiting for a producer to hire you... your chances are really, really small. I've been knocking on doors and asking for a job for many years, and my career really changed when I decided to create my own material.

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.

There are people who dismiss any ideas you have about helping, but anything has got to be better than doing absolutely nothing... hasn't it?

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it is about the actions you take as the leader of your business.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.