“I was able to meet young black people from all over the country who were focused on education and on elevating themselves.I'm endorsing and supporting this initiative because I believe college is a blessing, and for young black people coming out of areas that are struggling ... for them to see college as their future, that's a blessing.” PeopleBelieveCountryAbleYoungI BelieveBlackStruggleCollegeBlessingAreasFocusedBlack PeopleComing OutInitiativeElevatingEndorsing Author:Common
“Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having received the blessings from above to send young men to further their education.” MenWellsYoungStrongPleasureBlessingHip HopHipsYoung ManEnjoymentHopsInitiativeSignaturesGoing Strong Author:MC Lyte
“Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway. Over the passed couple of years the contacts were practically frozen on the initiative of the Japanese side, not ours. At the same time, presently our partners have expressed their eagerness to resume discussions on this issue [the Kuril Islands].” YearsSidesIssuesCoupleYears AgoMeetingsPartnersContactDiscussionIslandsInitiativeFrozenHalfwayResumesCounterpartsEagerness Author:Vladimir Putin
“In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit and other grants. The northern part of Ontario has started its own funding. They were really happy to sponsor us, so they've been very supportive and put up half the budget for this film. They'd like us to come back and do more films.” GovernmentFilmNumbersHalfTaxesStructureVery GoodCreditBudgetsCanadaGrantsInitiativeSupportiveFundingReally HappySponsorsOntario Author:Alfons Adetuyi
“Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes a defeat isn't really a defeat. Whether in attacking, counterattacking, or defensive tactics, the idea of attacking should remain central, to always keep the initiative.” ShouldIdeasSometimesSeemsDarkEnemyVictoryIntentionDefeatInitiativeTacticsAttacking Author:Vo Nguyen Giap
“President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.” KindHappensFightingPresidentProgramThings HappenInitiativeProvenPresident BushMake Things Happen Author:Chuck Grassley
“The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.” YearsLongLeftStruggleFivePlansPossibilityMonthsLimitsAchievementHighestResearchDecidedHistoricalOpponentsFive YearsOppositionFollowersSovietInitiativeIllustrationIndustrializationHistorical ResearchFive Year Plans Author:Leon Trotsky
“Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.” PeopleYoungLeaderStudentsBuildingSouthEastTiesHopefulCooperationInitiativeAsian Author:Barack Obama
“A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.” Would BeDifficultNeededArmyReachingInitiativeNeverthelessJointsProposal Author:Martin Schulz
“Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.” FactsGovernmentSpendingMassiveValleysInitiativeSiliconSilicon ValleyGovernment Spending Author:Noam Chomsky
“Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.” DoeCreativityCorporateValleysInitiativeSiliconSilicon ValleySponsors Author:Noam Chomsky
“I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.” ThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveMayImportantCountryReasonPlayBigsTodayAbleMovingRolesSkillsAmbitionAreasDirectShould HaveIndiaManagementInvestmentChineseReason WhyLeagueNeighborhoodNo ReasonInitiativeOther CountriesInfrastructureThink BigManagement Skills Author:Manmohan Singh
“The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc. All that team-involved decision-making often leads to tepid solutions and a slow-moving organization.” MovingIndividualDecisionTeamInvolvedSolutionsOrganizationEtcDecision MakingTeamworkCollaborationInitiativeConsensusReplacements Author:Marty Nemko
“Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasStatesGovernmentFacesSpeakSoundEffortEconomyTakenGrewMessagesGrew UpRedBlowProtectionAbsurdAlternativesBitesInitiativeGlobal EconomyCushionsNanniesOverboardOf ContextSound Bites Author:Van Jones
“I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.” PeopleCampaignsInitiativeSlamSlam Dunk Author:Van Jones
“Kids, everybody can get behind. It's a bipartisan thing. We care about our kids' health. But the truth is, it's very important for us to talk to parents, in particular mothers, because it's really our self-esteem, it's our initiative.” ImportantSelfCareKidsMotherParentBehindsSelf EsteemParticularTruth IsEsteemInitiativeBipartisan Author:Michelle Obama
“Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can build up enough popular support in the United States to put through a reasonable health care program or to support the rights of the working people against the version of NAFTA which was rammed through, these can be good things.” PeopleIfsStatesEnoughCareUnitedUnited StatesSupportRightsExampleProgramGood ThingsBe GoodVersionsReformHealth CareReasonableInitiativeHope For The FutureNafta Author:Noam Chomsky
“If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if he disassociates himself from forces that he unfortunately coddled and even fostered a little in this campaign, if he is responsible about the way in which he goes about his policy, initiatives on immigration and ObamaCare, trade and other areas, he has a huge opportunity, because the truth is that a lot of this stuff isn't that - there is a lot that can be done.” IfsWayWellsLittlesDoneOpportunityForceStuffPolicyHugeTrumpTruth IsAreasResponsibleAgreeTradeDistanceCampaignsImmigrationBehaveInitiativeVansObamacare Author:William Kristol
“What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMightActionOpportunityForceInterestingCenturyPositionTrumpHigherTrainingProgramWorkersAdministrationBuyingInitiative21st CenturyHigher Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter al-Qaida, including precise operations based on good intelligence, changes in their corrections facilities, superb strategic communications programs and a host of other initiatives - all of which, together, have helped Saudi Arabia achieve impressive results in their fight against extremists.” TogetherFightingResultsAchieveCommunicationApproachProgramIntelligentIncludingOperationsAlsHostInitiativeMinistryPreciseInteriorsEmployedImpressiveFacilityStrategicComprehensiveExtremistArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisCorrectionsSuperbRiyadh Author:David Petraeus
“There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that.” WayHas BeensFoundationClintonExposedInitiativeHumiliate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Do you know they've already seen a drop of 37% in donations [for Clinton Global Initiative]? Now, if it's a charity, why a 37% drop? There's a 37% drop because the donors figured out the Clintons can't do anything for 'em anymore. That's not pretty.” IfsKnowsClintonCharityEmsDo You KnowInitiativeDonationDonorsNot Pretty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure.” PeopleWorldHeartAmericaBlackMoralPressureThreatDestroyedBlack PeopleInitiativeUnclesUncle Sam Author:Malcolm X
“In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.” GivingYearsLongSaidPartyGiving UpExceptionInitiativeArmament Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I felt like, what better way for people to understand me by taking the initiative in giving my real name, my name that moms taught me so y'all actually know what's going on in my life and my music.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingRealNamesFeltTaughtMomInitiativeBetter WaysUnderstand Me Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Of course, we will work towards that end. Of course, we will work to achieve this result. However, you have just mentioned the 1956 agreement, and one may recall that these negotiations were later terminated, in effect, on Japan's initiative.” MayEndsCoursesResultsAchieveEffectsJapanAgreementInitiativeRecallsNegotiation Author:Vladimir Putin
“As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.” WaySaidMatterLastsIssuesCitizensAreasBasesRegardAgreeMeetingsSouthHumanitarianHandleMinistersNativeResolvePrimeInitiativePrime MinisterVisaAbe Author:Vladimir Putin
“With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive.” ThinkingMadeSometimesWould BeRepublicanResponsibleMade ItInitiativeLegislationGoverningCounterproductive Author:Barack Obama
“I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.” WayHelpingCultureTendenciesInitiativeDisturbedLaunching Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsLawSidesChurchStreetsBrotherCallingRepublicanConflictWorshipDemocratAbortionGlobal WarmingNeighborhoodLunchInitiativeIn-lawsShortageYour BrotherMosquesSynagogueBrother In Law Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn't involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.” CommitmentConcernedSouthNuclearInitiativeAustralianPacificNuclear WarNew ZealandWarships Author:Bob Hawke
“I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.” WorldTryingMayImportantPresidentSeriousClimateClimate ChangeInitiativeNudge Author:Barack Obama
“The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.” FirstsBelieveMeanDoneInterestMistakeFocusAchieveNormalTransformationInnovationDuesAccomplishedInitiativeCompetingFortitudeVelocityConcludingIncubationLack Of Leadership Author:Geoffrey Moore
“I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR.” KnowsRelationFoundationBillsClintonAidsAdministrationInitiativeOutreachForeign Aid Author:Bill Gates
“We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course [Barack] Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.” CoursesStageIncludingBarackUncertaintyBudgetsInitiativeAgricultureConstraintsPhenomenalMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.” GovernmentWhiteGroupsPolicyTaughtInitiativeReservedCivil SocietyPastures Author:Nelson Mandela
“We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a malnourished nation that part of the founding of the welfare state were public health initiatives. Every little schoolchild got milk. Mrs. Thatcher stopped it. They called her "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher."” WorldMayChildrenLittlesWarStatesSchoolNationsSoundPowerfulNumbersMinistersWelfareMilkInitiativeFoundingVery PowerfulPublic HealthPowerful WomenWelfare StateAngelaQuaintMaggieMrs Thatcher Author:Hilary Mantel
“If you're talking about competing with countries in the industrialized, developed world, they don't have healthcare costs. Their societies have that as a priority. Here in America, we won't have the same kind of healthcare availability because it's still a private sector initiative. But that's O.K. because it's facilitated to be made more affordable in a public way.” IfsWorldWayKindMadeStillsCountryAmericaTalkingCostPrioritiesHealthcareInitiativeCompetingAffordablePrivate SectorAvailability Author:Nancy Pelosi
“People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough to roll back the oligarchy. I'm seeing a lot of action on the left as well that is never reported. But the Tea Party response is the most visible and the initiative they show is the most recognizable.” PeopleWellsKindEnoughShowsActionLeftRealizingWhitePartySeeingHorseWake UpResponsePassionateAll KindsTeaVisibleWakingInitiativeKnightsTea PartyOligarchyWhite Horse Author:Naomi Wolf
“I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It was kind of structured so you ended up knowing everything you were supposed to know, arithmetic, Latin, whatever it was. But almost always it was under your own initiative.” KnowsKindKidsSchoolInterestKnowingHappenedPursueLatinInitiativeArithmeticKnowing Everything Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.” ThinkingWorldRealGovernmentFallBehindsEnthusiasmAround The WorldMassiveInitiativeGeneticsFalling Behind Author:Anne Wojcicki
“I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I think, is ridiculous. It should be a major initiative. It should be something we're all working on. We have to get our head out of the clouds.” ThinkingShouldKindSchoolMajorsCloudsCrowdsRidiculousInitiativePrivate SchoolNet Worth Author:Marc Benioff
“Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsMeanLongEndsSelfCountryEnoughRunningAbleRealizingDecisionKnow HowTakenGenerationsGoes OnHabitHundredForgottenInitiativeAway From You Author:Chinua Achebe
“One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train the Afghans being pressured to be on Facebook? Again, it sounds benign until you realize that the military's concern isn't the Afghans, it's convincing the American people that we should be in Afghanistan.Soldiers can put up pictures and say "See how happy the Afghans are because of our presence here." It's a way to directly influence the American people using propaganda.” PeopleRealizingInfluenceConcernTrainSoldierPropagandaAfghanistanInitiativeConvincing Author:Michael Hastings
“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.” InterestIntegrityProductivityInitiativeAmazedHuman Potential Author:Wole Soyinka
“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.” PeopleDoneArtistSituationCreativeTeacherShameIndependentDesperateProgressiveOpennessThinkerInitiativeCreative PeopleEducator Author:Andre Vltchek
“Deal with just the basic fact: we will never have enough money for lawyers for poor people. So one of our major initiatives has been to develop new technologies that can help people without a lawyer navigate the legal system, and help sort the cases that really need to have a lawyer from those where an individual with some help online, may be able to manage by him or herself.” PeopleEnoughHelpingIndividualPoorTechnologyLawyerManageOnlineInitiativePoor PeopleNew Technology Author:Martha Minow
“Many change initiatives are poorly thought out, and rolled out prematurely. Others are genuinely good ideas but the proponents underestimate the amount of time needed to make the change. And, I agree, true change usually requires people giving something up and so resistance is pretty well guaranteed for any meaningful change.” PeopleGivingAgreeMeaningfulInitiativeUnderestimate Author:Gary A. Klein
“Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature but the real cause of lots of resistance often is that however much a team might say that it wants to change, the old assumptions are woven, invisibly, deep within the corporate culture, and from this staging ground they act invisibly to sustain the old order. Finding the assumption out and then rooting them out is a special skill. It calls for assumption hunters, I call them.” RealFallCultureFailingTeamSpecialExpectationsAssumptionInitiative Author:Grant David McCracken
“You must set up measurement of results and celebrate small victories as you go along. I have observed that any creativity initiative gets about an eighteen-month grace period. If there aren't any tangible results in a year and a half, despite the strongest commitment, someone in the organization is going to start questioning the whole program.” CreativityGraceVictoryCommitmentProgramCelebrateQuestioningInitiative Author:Michael Ray