The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I’ve found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be… — Ben Zobrist Copy Share Image
In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the… — Tommy Koh Copy Share Image
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus,… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Many change initiatives are poorly thought out, and rolled out prematurely. Others are genuinely good ideas but the proponents underestimate the amount… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a risk that they will be used. And the consequences of their use would… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I've got a feeling that, if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Do you ever sit back and wonder how and why other people are so successful, productive, or accomplished? What is the driver… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions. — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists, and I do know in New York,… — Peter T. King Copy Share Image
I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“All of us must have initiative, we should not be mere imitators; we must learn to think and act for ourselves and… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
“If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
“Take the Initiative. Be proactive. If you want to rock your relationship results, it is going to take action, effort, initiative, and… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
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