#initiative

There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#around #been #country #improvement #initiatives

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#born #future #generation #his #initiative

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. ↗

— Gale Norton

#better #environment #help #how #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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#because #companies #could #created #get

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#defenders #dynamism #initiative #like #modern

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. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#creativity #economy #free #free economy #god-given

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

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#initiative #only #player #right

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