#initiative

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#compassionate #conservatism #desire #faith #faith-based

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. ↗

— Bill Maher

#disorder #faith-based #flying #i #i think

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives. ↗

— Mario Monti

#initiatives #italy #rather #unusual

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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#because #companies #could #created #get

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession. ↗

— Andy Sawford

#government #initiative #join #launch #now

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#difference #doing #imagination #initiative #make

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#courage #determination #initiative #age

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work -- his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy -- and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#inequity #iniquity #initiative #profit #business

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #motivational #new-thought #positive-thinking

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#initiative #self-education #education