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“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.”

“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.”

Way Stills Shows Talent Luck Awful Initiative Availability

Author:Joan Leslie

“Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.”

“Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America's public schools? Yes, let's do - not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea that Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle.”

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

People Thinking Opposites Initiative

Author:Ovid

“The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.”

People Thinking Long Two Use Night Three Track Complicated Repeats Initiative Can Not Framework Three Things Simplify

Author:Keith Rabois

“You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.”

Way Important Reason Character Force Stuff Simple Company Products Concepts Red Marketing Reason Why No Reason Initiative Simplify Eliminating

Author:Keith Rabois

“Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.”

Thinking Opportunity Language Waiting Differences Wise Risk Producers Abundance Making A Difference Initiative Venture Scarcity

Author:Oliver DeMille

“African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a lot of suspicion because we're so inhabited by the notion of being colonized, the post-colonial thought that someone wants us to do something that is their interest and not ours and even it's not true, there's the suspicion of it like where is this going?”

Want Problem Interest Industry Notion Arise Posts Cinema Initiative Suspicion Want U

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives like the Make Your Pitch competition and the Ontario Social Impact Voucher help us nurture the next generation of business leaders. We will continue creating an inviting environment for our next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring they develop the right skills needed to succeed in a globally competitive economy and build the future of Ontario.”

“For the past three years, the CIVIX Student Budget Consultation has helped us to better understand the most pressing national issues for young Canadians. I am delighted to note that on key issues, such as balancing the budget, debt reduction, and lowering taxes, we stand in step with the thousands of students who participated in this initiative from coast to coast to coast. I want to thank the students and teachers for investing their time and energy in this worthwhile initiative. Their enthusiastic participation inspires great hope for Canada's future.”

“OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.”

Culture Meetings Initiative Advancing

Author:Dave Douglas

“I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real boots on the ground approach to helping veterans in need.”

People Want Needs Real Helping Jobs Suffering Normal Approach Combat Boots Initiative Veteran Assistance Family Life Need Help Normal Family Combat Boots Wounded Veterans

Author:Max Martini

“Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.”

Film Initiative Just Do It

Author:Werner Herzog

“A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.”

Problem Hero Solve Initiative Ambiguous

Author:James Marcus Bach

“Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.”

Action Order Individual Results Economy Bottom Phenomenon Manifest Initiative Spontaneous Globalization Anticipate Global Economy

Author:John Naisbitt

“I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.”

People Years Has Beens Important States Process Proud Reform Initiative Presidency

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Movember is an event that I've supported for a number of years. I haven't grown a moustache myself before, but I've always donated to others. I think that raising awareness for men's health is really important. You see a lot of initiatives - very public initiatives - around women's health, like breast cancer awareness and the like, but men's health issues tend to go more unnoticed. I think this is a great cause and I'm proud to support it.”

“It's really important, obviously, for people to realize that it is a very small percentage, only 1 percent of our total economy, of our total budget, and I think that's important for people to know. But I also know that Americans are very generous and that many, many Americans are proud that their taxpayer dollar has saved lives in Africa through the president's malaria initiative or through PEPFAR, the emergency relief plan for AIDS.”

People Thinking Knows Important President Realizing Economy Plans Proud Percent Dollars Aids Saved Budgets Generous Relief Initiative Emergencies Percentages Taxpayers Malaria

Author:Laura Bush

“Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.”

Thinking Helping Use Purpose Grows Leader Growing Groups Judgment Conviction Trends Followers Initiative Contributors

Book:LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION

Source: LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION

“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.”

Should Made Roles Teacher Ready Solutions Research Satisfied Initiative Mentor Lecturer

Author:Jean Piaget

“The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history.”

“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.”

Choices Risk Anxiety Notion Daring Initiative

Book:The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver

Source: The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver

“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”

Knows Would Be Law Goal Pressure Protection Useless Initiative Law Enforcement Enforcement Recessions Administrative

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“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.”

Members Educated Initiative Distribution Mobile Adaptability

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“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.”

Want Natural Share Cards Want Me Initiative Testimony Seekers Autographs

Author:Ben Zobrist

“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.”

Two Hands Dies Individual Social Community Environment Evolution Essentials Factors Impulse Interaction Initiative Rejecting Adopting Social Environment

Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“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.”

Ifs Giving Ends Character America Spirit Opportunity Individual Progress Divine March Initiative Abiding Abiding Faith

Book:American Individualism

Source: American Individualism

“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.”

People America Purpose Individual Energy Wealth Higher Standards Built Rose Including Profit Fund Initiative Standards Of Living Slums Skyscraper

Author:Ayn Rand

“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”

Life Wisdom Action Right Thing Initiative Follow Your Heart Doing The Right Thing

Author:Victor Hugo

“Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.”

States Government Interest Issues Special Citizens Initiative Involvement Special Interests Referendums

Author:George W. Bush

“Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.”

Self Form Empowerment Initiative Self Empowerment

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives”

“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.”

People Years Eye School Film Grows Growing Up Fronts Industry Directors Six Accepted France Filmmaker Initiative Film School

Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven

“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.”

Done Jobs Individual Initiative New Things Bureaucracy

Author:Lester Thurow

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

Men Willing Suicide Commit Initiative

Author:Boris Spassky

“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.”

Whole Home Would Be Christian Form Style Activity Majors Impulse Range Officials Initiative Expansion Adopted Apostles Organisation Whole Family

Book:The Formation of Christendom

Source: The Formation of Christendom

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

Terrorist Initiative Terrorist Attacks Faith Based

Author:Dan Barker

“Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need....Government has a role, and an important role. Yet, too much government crowds out initiative and hard work, private charity and the private economy....Government should be active, but limited; engaged, but not overbearing.”

Want Needs Should Years Important Hard Seems Government Sides Roles Economy Too Much Hard Work Cost Argument Tired Charity Crowds Active Debate Budgets Engaged Initiative Overbearing

Author:George W. Bush

“A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.”

“God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.”

Men Accepting Believer Rejects Initiative

Author:John Powell

“Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.”

Children Results Clear Policy Adults Harm Welfare Initiative Justified

Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.”

Ifs Motivation Certain Suffering Habit Performances Innovation Entrepreneur Credit Improvement Employee Initiative Conventional Bad Habits

Author:Martin Zwilling

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

Play Sports Attitude Team Baseball Independent Plus Initiative

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.”

War Government Age Political Party Revolution Mark Characteristics Enterprise Spheres Initiative Dictator Bias Political Parties Free Enterprise

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox.”

“Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.”

Wells Government Today Names Modern Policy Behavior Moved Goods Initiative Public Health Personal Behavior

Author:Radley Balko

“I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.”

Audience Members Annoying Initiative Broadway Programmes Initiate

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

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

Initiative Robbery Bank Robbery

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills”

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