Initiate Quotes

• If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it.  Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

  Travis Rice

  Discovery, Self, Earth

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• Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

  William Pollard

  Creativity, Opportunity, Innovation

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• Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

  William Pollard

  Creativity, Innovation, Inevitable Change

  "Why It’s Dangerous to Become ‘Too Comfortable’" by Alicia T. Glenn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, Philosophy, Men

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

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• I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

  John Sherman Cooper

  Talking, Conversation, Fbi

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• Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Wisdom, Peace, Opportunity

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• I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

  Francois Hollande

  Long, Want, Term

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• Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Song, Mean

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

  Lawrence Welk

  Talking, Accents, Conversation

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• Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq

  Carl Levin

  Military, War, Order

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• Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

  Michael Schudson

  Trends, Advertising, Consumers

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.207, Routledge

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• Simple and more frequent dates allow both men and women to ‘shop around’ in a way that allows extensive evaluation of the prospects. The old-fashioned date was a wonderful way to get acquainted with a member of the opposite sex. It encouraged conversation. It allowed you to see how you treat others and how you are treated in a one-on-one situation. It gave opportunities to learn how to initiate and sustain a mature relationship. None of that happens in hanging out

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Sex, Men, Opportunity

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• Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.

  Viola Spolin

  Followers

  Viola Spolin, Carol Sills (1985). “Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook, Updated Edition”, p.93, Northwestern University Press

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• To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

  Zeena Schreck

  Sex, Ordinary, Negative

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• The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

  James Hansen

  Children, Carbon Emissions, Climate

  "Obama's tar sand trap" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Men, Individuality, Earth

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1891). “Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...: Autobiographical and political V.2,4,6, Critical and literary”

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• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  Rajneesh

  Dogma, Destroying, Creeds

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• Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fighting, Class, Organization

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Girl, Education, Children

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• Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

  Doris Day

  Thoughtful, Helping Others, Views

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• We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Girl, Waiting

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Magic, World

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 6.”, Lulu.com

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• Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Pain, Believe

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• Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Healing, Love Is

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• He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

  Primo Levi

  Gymnastics, Men, Creation Of Man

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