Initiate Quotes

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

Travis Rice

Discovery, Self, Earth

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Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

William Pollard

Creativity, Opportunity, Innovation

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Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

William Pollard

Creativity, Innovation, Inevitable Change

"Why It’s Dangerous to Become ‘Too Comfortable’" by Alicia T. Glenn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

Ayn Rand

Peace, Philosophy, Men

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

John Sherman Cooper

Talking, Conversation, Fbi

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Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Chen Shui-bian

Wisdom, Peace, Opportunity

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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

Francois Hollande

Long, Want, Term

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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

Photography, Song, Mean

Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq

Carl Levin

Military, War, Order

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Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Michael Schudson

Trends, Advertising, Consumers

Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.207, Routledge

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My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Lawrence Welk

Talking, Accents, Conversation

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Simple and more frequent dates allow both men and women to ‘shop around’ in a way that allows extensive evaluation of the prospects. The old-fashioned date was a wonderful way to get acquainted with a member of the opposite sex. It encouraged conversation. It allowed you to see how you treat others and how you are treated in a one-on-one situation. It gave opportunities to learn how to initiate and sustain a mature relationship. None of that happens in hanging out

Dallin H. Oaks

Sex, Men, Opportunity

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Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.

Viola Spolin

Followers

Viola Spolin, Carol Sills (1985). “Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook, Updated Edition”, p.93, Northwestern University Press

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To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

Zeena Schreck

Sex, Ordinary, Negative

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The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

James Hansen

Children, Carbon Emissions, Climate

"Obama's tar sand trap" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Men, Individuality, Earth

Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...: Autobiographical and political V.2,4,6, Critical and literary”

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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

Rajneesh

Dogma, Destroying, Creeds

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The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

Ayn Rand

Ifs And, Issues, Use

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To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.

Jerry Bridges

Fashion, Encouragement, Adversity

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American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.

Burton Rascoe

Jobs, Light, Ideas

"Fanfare" by Burton Rascoe in "H. L. Mencken", 1920.

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Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

Jane Goodall

Science, Animal, Stronger

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Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Powerful, Life Changing, Simple

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When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.

Jimmy Evans

Romance, Spouse, Communicate

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It's much better to invite the audience to be part of your show rather than saying, "I command you to do this." The other thing is, you have to follow through. If you initiate a game and they take part, you can't stop until it reaches a mutually satisfying resolution.

Stephen Colbert

Games, Resolution, Follow Through

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I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.

Chris Kluwe

Football, Play, Games

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