Initiative Quotes - Page 7

• Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

  Don Tapscott

  Leader, Looks, Way

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• In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to a sustainable system is running out. We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even the present one.

  Kofi Annan

  Running, Moving, Responsibility

  "Annan pleads with west as environment is pushed up UN agenda" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2001.

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• The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

  Jim Bailey

  Running, Determination, Kings

  Jim Bailey (2013). “The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story”, p.37, A&C Black

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• America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Country, America, Needs

  "U.S. Downgrade Heralds a New Financial Era" by Mohamed A. El-Erian, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2011.

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• Our goal is not to douse the recession with money, which would be useless, as both you and I know. Our goal is to liberate the business initiative, to lower administrative and law enforcement pressure and to make legal protection truly effective

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Law, Goal, Would Be

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• In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, World, Complexes

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Authority and the Individual”, p.47, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

  Abba Eban

  Men, Waiting, Repentance

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Anxiety, Choices, Risk

  Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.148, John Wiley & Sons

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.

  Evan Bayh

  Cutting, Eight, Indiana

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• While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

  Shelley Berkley

  Believe, Support, Quality

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• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

  John Grierson

  Loss, Views, Would Be

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• Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

  Peter Senge

  Years, People, Majority

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Children, War

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

  Efim Geller

  Sacrifice, Player, Chess

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• Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Charity, Poverty, Poor

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor”, p.283, Penguin Books India

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• Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.

  Henry Chester

  Mountain, Achieve, Miraculous

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• It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

  Wole Soyinka

  Integrity, Interest, Human Potential

  Source: secure.saharareporters.com

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• With this new initiative, Disney is doing what no major media company has ever done before in the United States. And what I hope every company will do going forward when it comes to the ads they show and the food they sell they're asking themselves one simple question: Is this good for our kids?

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Kids, Simple

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• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  Warren Beatty

  Issues, Engagement, Pushing

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

  Chris Martin

  People

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• Wal-Mart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just [2017] year because of our various plans and initiatives.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Years, United States

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be participating in this 'project'. Not only professional educators and teachers , but especially artists, creative people, thinkers. There should be many more initiatives, particularly more from the independent press! What happened to progressive independent publications in Indonesia? Nothing - they never took off! It is a shame.

  Andre Vltchek

  Teacher, Independent, Artist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Loneliness, Compassion

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