Initiative Quotes - Page 21

• The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Creativity, Responsibility

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• I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

  James W. Fowler

  Faith, Believe, People

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• The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

  George Lois

  Business, Cynical, Individuality

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• Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

  Frances Beinecke

  People, Leader, Political

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• Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Facts, Valleys

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Connect with people, visibly and loudly showcase initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases emissions, nurture youth leaders, or spread the message by raising awareness through campaigns. I am convinced that your contributions will ensure that climate change solutions safely power our - and especially your - future.

  Christiana Figueres

  People, Leader, Messages

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• We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Healing, People, Generations

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Years, Names

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• Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Mean, Knowing

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition”, p.17, B&H Publishing Group

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• Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Sex, Women

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• Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

  Tom Peters

  Military, War, Mean

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• Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America's public schools? Yes, let's do - not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea that Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle.

  David Quammen

  Spiritual, School, Intelligent

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• The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.

  Keith Rabois

  Night, Thinking, Two

  "How To Start A Startup". Y Combinator’s CS183B Stanford Class. Lecture 14: How to Operate,

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• You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.

  Keith Rabois

  Character, Simple, Marketing

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wise, Opportunity, Thinking

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• African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a lot of suspicion because we're so inhabited by the notion of being colonized, the post-colonial thought that someone wants us to do something that is their interest and not ours and even it's not true, there's the suspicion of it like where is this going?

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Want, Cinema, Problem

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I still don't understand why you don't mention the family charitable foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative. The Clinton Global Initiative is actually like a Morning Call for women all over the world. When the Clinton Global Initiative comes, that's a signal to women all over the world to come to New York.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Morning, New York, Foundation

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

  David Steel

  Mps, Numbers, Vote

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• So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.

  Ann Coulter

  Mother, Wall, Accomplishment

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• Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Night, Thinking, Decision

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives like the Make Your Pitch competition and the Ontario Social Impact Voucher help us nurture the next generation of business leaders. We will continue creating an inviting environment for our next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring they develop the right skills needed to succeed in a globally competitive economy and build the future of Ontario.

  Brad Duguid

  Skills, Creating, Impact

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• Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

  Werner Herzog

  Film, Just Do It

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• Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.

  John Naisbitt

  Order, Action, Spontaneous

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• I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Years, People, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Movember is an event that I've supported for a number of years. I haven't grown a moustache myself before, but I've always donated to others. I think that raising awareness for men's health is really important. You see a lot of initiatives - very public initiatives - around women's health, like breast cancer awareness and the like, but men's health issues tend to go more unnoticed. I think this is a great cause and I'm proud to support it.

  James Magnussen

  Cancer, Men, Thinking

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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