Words matter. These are the best Initiative Quotes from famous people such as Robert Downey, Jr., Gwen Ifill, Charles E. Wilson, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Rudolf Steiner, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it – it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.
It’s been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Walmart’s Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits – and she can wait infinitely.
In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome.
When I started at NBC, I’m quite sure there wasn’t a plan or initiative that we need to make sure the girls are anchoring the shows.
Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
A key initiative that was launched was Project Triggerlock, which targeted for federal prosecution violent felons who illegally possessed guns. It used our very strong federal gun laws to put those people away for a long period of time, a resolution that we couldn’t get from many of the state systems.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
On Day One, a start-up is a faith-based initiative built on guesses.
We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project – China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
Announcing a diversity initiative, or making it a cause, exerts unwanted pressure.
The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There’s great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look.
I don’t think there could’ve been a pitch as crass as Trump’s ‘I can fix America because I’m rich’ without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.
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.
I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn’t, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn’t sound very trustworthy to me.
As we know, menstrual hygiene is an issue women have been facing over the years. It’s great that the initiative to provide low-cost sanitary napkins has been undertaken. It is an empowering step for many women.
I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists, and I do know in New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that.
If you are fearful, choose courage. If you frequently procrastinate, choose to take action now. If you have always waited for others to lead, use your own initiative.
The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
One of the central planks of China’s stated plan for world domination is their Belt and Road Initiative, which makes countries around the world dependent on China for vital infrastructure.
There’s a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
I’m a gay rights supporter. I’m a human-rights campaign initiative person.
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.
We ship owners and our predecessors, all the way back to the dawn of history, operating in majority on private initiative and at our own risk, have been linking the world together much more effectively than governments ever managed to do or will likely ever be capable of doing.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the ‘Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,’ I think they’d be excoriated.
I hope that France – and all of Europe – we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.
When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.
The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.
I want to take initiative; I know my game and I know what I need to do to win.
Neymar, I’m not going to take away his initiative in the last third of the pitch – his genius.
I’m proud to stand with U.S. Impact Team in their initiative to create harmony.
Under Swachh Bharat initiative, the government has built nine crore toilets.
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.
The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
I really do think that it’s going to be very important that fashion at Lincoln Center becomes a year-round initiative.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their ‘critical thinking.’
I found out there is a production paradise in Brazil. I was able to make my second collection for less money but without sacrificing quality. More importantly, manufacturing in Brazil also fits in with my global initiative: to provide work and empowerment in a third-world country.
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
