Initiative Quotes - Page 6

• Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Opportunity, Abiding Faith

  Herbert Hoover, George Nash (2016). “American Individualism”, p.47, Hoover Press

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• Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

  John W. Davis

  Ambition, Politics, Passing

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• It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

  Ben Zobrist

  Cards, Want, Natural

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

  George Gilder

  School, Successful, Opposites

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• Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Hands, Two, Community

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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• Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Politics, Rewards

  Tom Clancy, Martin Greenberg (2000). “Tom Clancy SSN”, p.265, Penguin

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• Has the Ministry assessed what manpower savings or cost efficiencies have been derived from such use of new technologies, and how policing capabilities have been enhanced? What new initiatives can we expect, and how will the police guard against their officers being “de-skilled” by over-relying on technology?

  Sylvia Lim

  Technology, Police, Ministry

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• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, Gentleman, Curiosity

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative.

  Jeff Mills

  Dream, Believe, Past

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• A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles.

  Judith Herrin

  Christian, Home, Style

  Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

  Lester Thurow

  Jobs, Done, Individual

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• America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums.

  Ayn Rand

  America, Rose, People

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• From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.

  David Saperstein

  Dream, Religious, Yield

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• First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

  Anuj

  Appreciate, Special, Firsts

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• Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

  Henry Cisneros

  People, Judging, Progress

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• Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Men, Law

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

  John Dewey

  Members, Adaptability, Educated

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.91, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Communication, Learning

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• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, President, Six Months

  "Exclusive Interview With Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to President Obama". Interview with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2011.

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• The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

  Daniel Hannan

  Best Practices, Law, Citizens

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• Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  Loss, Advantages And Disadvantages, Policy

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• I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

  Fawn Hall

  Iran, Details, Relevant

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• The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Land, People, Decision

  "Thousands of jubilant Palestinians cheer speech at UN". www.ctvnews.ca. September 23, 2011.

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• Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

  Harold Evans

  Funny, Thoughtful, Blogging

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