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    If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.

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    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.

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    In the last 10 years, we have seen a rise in selfishness: selfies, self-absorbed people, superficiality, self-degradation, apathy, and self-destruction. So I challenge all of you to take initiative to change this programming. Instead of celebrating the ego, let's flip the script and celebrate the heart. Let's put the ego and celebrity culture to sleep, and awaken the conscience. This is the battle we must all fight together to win back our humanity. To save our future and our children.

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    If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

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    Initiative + Progress = Success.

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    It does not matter how strong and well prepared you are, if you have no direction

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    I realised no-one will come in to rescue me. I just had to step out somehow, and make my dreams come true.

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    It does not matter how strong well prepared you are, if you have no direction

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    It’s better to be called Stupid initially while trying something different rather than being termed stupid for not taking any initiative.

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    It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

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    Luck is what we make it, not what is thrust upon us. You've shown initiative and it has nothing to do with luck.

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    I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

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    Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

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    Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I’m not going to wait one more second for that.

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    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.

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    No matter how ridiculous your dream may sound to others, you owe yourself the responsibility of stepping out to do it.

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    Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.

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    My dilemma is that of the civil servant. If a civil servant takes an initiative and things go right with it, he cannot, in the nature of his employment, look for much in the way of reward; whereas if his initiative goes wrong, he can expect all kinds of trouble, everything from reprimand to blocked promotion, and a permanent black mark against his name in the files. It is accepted, therefore, that the way to advance in the civil service, or in any field where civil service conditions prevail, is never take an initiative and never to support anyone else's. It is inevitable that this should be so.

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    Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

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    Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

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    The first time, she’d done it off her own instincts, and he’d ripped her to shreds for not including the team in her decisions, but since then, he’d asked her what she’d have done if alone. This was why. There would always come a time when no one could help. Working alone meant making those choices, taking those chances.

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    The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

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    The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

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    The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.

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    The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

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    There are some things I would gladly do, but not if someone told me to.

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    There is no " i " in team. But there are two in motivation.

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    The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

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    When do I start?" is the most refreshing thing I've heard in this whole war.

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    Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low. These organizations have people who will try to patch problems over after the fact, instead of motivated people eager to delight on the spot. The alternative, it seems, is to organize for joy. These are the companies that give their people the freedom (and the expectation) that they will create, connect and surprise. These are the organizations that embrace someone who make a difference, as opposed to searching the employee handbook for a rule that was violated.

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    Truman said he only needed a daily intelligence digest to keep from having to read a two-foot stack of cables every morning.

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    Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!

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    When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

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    The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

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    Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812. “One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

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    Whenever you are popular just pause and see the reflect

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    When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us--He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there.

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    Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

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    Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

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    You may start small but don't stay small

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    With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better.

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    Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

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    You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.

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    An idea is worthless unless you use it.

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    A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

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    And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

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    Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

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

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    Any state with an initiative process is on our radar.

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    Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.