Initiative Quotes - Page 24

• I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the Saudis to decide how they wish to transform their society in order to make it prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Order, Challenges

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

  Colin Powell

  Government, People, Suggestions

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Government, Order, Perception

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.

  Allen Hershkowitz

  Climate, Crisis, Solve

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• If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.The first country that implemented this participatory program of assessment, research and policy development was Brazil. I was one of the outsiders who provided support to the initiative.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Real, Team

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact, this should be very relevant for public health initiatives in Michigan and elsewhere in the US.

  Ruth Simmons

  Impact, Innovation, Pilots

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having received the blessings from above to send young men to further their education.

  MC Lyte

  Strong, Blessing, Men

  "MC Lyte's Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Interview with MC Lyte, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

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• Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway. Over the passed couple of years the contacts were practically frozen on the initiative of the Japanese side, not ours. At the same time, presently our partners have expressed their eagerness to resume discussions on this issue [the Kuril Islands].

  Vladimir Putin

  Couple, Islands, Years

  Source: thesaker.is

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• In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit and other grants. The northern part of Ontario has started its own funding. They were really happy to sponsor us, so they've been very supportive and put up half the budget for this film. They'd like us to come back and do more films.

  Alfons Adetuyi

  Government, Numbers, Supportive

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes a defeat isn't really a defeat. Whether in attacking, counterattacking, or defensive tactics, the idea of attacking should remain central, to always keep the initiative.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Dark, Ideas, Enemy

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• President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

  Chuck Grassley

  Fighting, President, Kind

  "Reaction to President Bush's speech". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2007.

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• The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.

  Leon Trotsky

  Struggle, Years, Illustration

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.

  Barack Obama

  Ties, People, Hopeful

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

  Martin Schulz

  Army, Joints, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Would Be, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Moving, Believe

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Past, Opportunity

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Government, Self

  "Delhi Diary". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 68-70, March 1948.

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• For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

  Richard Marcinko

  Winning, Past, Way

  Richard Marcinko (1995). “Green Team”, Atria Books

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Men, Imagination

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• The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Mistake, Believe, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Trying, President

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a malnourished nation that part of the founding of the welfare state were public health initiatives. Every little schoolchild got milk. Mrs. Thatcher stopped it. They called her "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher."

  Hilary Mantel

  Powerful, Children, War

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn't involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.

  Bob Hawke

  Commitment, Nuclear, Concerned

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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