Initiative Quotes - Page 5

• Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Belief, Efficient

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.192, Penguin

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• The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Phones, Important, Information

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• Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Robbery, Bank Robbery

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• The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

  Dan Barker

  Terrorist, Faith Based, Terrorist Attacks

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• A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

  Boris Spassky

  Suicide, Men, Commit

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• What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

  Jean Piaget

  Teacher, Mentor, Roles

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• I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

  Mikhail Tal

  Giving, Mind, Opponents

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• That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

  Joan Leslie

  Availability, Luck, Awful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

  Julie Bishop

  Strong, Australia, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Life, Lying, Creating

  "The Mandate". Book by Jacob Bergen, p. 33, 2006.

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• In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.

  George S. Patton

  War, Blow, Ignorant

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• The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Spears, Inferiors

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.14, Bottom of the Hill

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• We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Moving, Choices

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.18, Penguin

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• Height gives you the initiative.

  Adolph Malan

  Giving, Height, Aviation

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• The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

  Paul Ryan

  Creativity, People, Use

  "The Daily Debate" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 25, 2012.

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• You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

  James Sinegal

  Dream, Fighting, People

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• Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

  Frank Herbert

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• Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

  Ovid

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• Kids are the biggest brand ambassadors of Swachh Bharat initiative.

  Narendra Modi

  Kids, Empowerment, India

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• If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Return, Merit, Obligation

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• The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

  Alistair Begg

  People, Stories, Lines

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• The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Attitude

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• One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.

  George W. Bush

  Wall, Taken, Humor

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• What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

  Susan George

  Jobs, Community, Needs

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