Quotes About Initiate

Making the beginning is one third of the work.

If the greatest fruit of man's labor should be the education he receives from it and the opportunity which work gives him to initiate the education of others, then the alienation of modern society in a pedagogical sense is even worse than its economic alienation.

Los mitos crecren como cristales, según su propia estructura recurrente, pero es necesaria la existencia de un núcleo apropiado para iniciar su crecimiento - Koestler

In the limit, every flight commander, if not every pilot with a weapon aboard, would feel authorized, under some circumstances, to initiate nuclear war with the Communist bloc.

McNamara had indicated to me in the luncheon in his office that he would never recommend any such thing. And as I've said, much later he revealed that in fact he had advised both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson never, under any circumstances, to initiate the use of nuclear weapons. He said that they had agreed with him.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Sometimes a therapist will deliberately "prescribe the problem" or symptom that the patient wants to resolve. A young man who keeps putting off finding a job might be told in therapy that he can't look for a job; a woman who won't initiate sex with her partner might be told not to initiate it for a month. This strategy, in which the therapist instructs patients not to do what they're already not doing, is called a paradoxical intervention

If my people learn to trust me, I'll get their attention. But if I initiate trust in my people, I'll get their action.

All's well that begins well!

Connection provides the bridge between 'this is how' and 'begin now.

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The Initiate must be totally naked, to demonstrate that he is truly a human being and not something else in disguise like a cabbage or something.

A good beginning is half the work.

Get over it and get started, life is too short to hesitate.

I've always found," said Dr. Fisher, springing from his chair, "that all you had to do to start a thing was to—begin.

Create before you consume.

Change begins with the person who wants the change.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —AGATHA CHRISTIE, MYSTERY AUTHOR

Start by starting.

We are, in large part, a culture that expects its boys to initiate themselves into manhood. But holistic or even minimal initiation into manhood through relatively unguided self-experimentation is rare. Boys cannot become whole men without men and women making them into men.

Silence is useful if you are an initiate and know what you are doing. But useless if there is no goal behind. It's a natural thing.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.