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The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.
What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
Announcing a diversity initiative, or making it a cause, exerts unwanted pressure.
I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.
Mentality is a big part of every game, when you take the initiative and when you drop.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.
New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.
Neymar, I'm not going to take away his initiative in the last third of the pitch - his genius.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.
The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.
A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.
If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.
The lead initiative of my foundation is clean water, but not far behind it is military appreciation.
I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.
The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Over time, demand from Registry should help support the home product expansion initiative and vice-versa.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.
Americans need to embrace Sikhs more and Sikhs need to take the initiative to educate people about their religion.
You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.
I really do think that it's going to be very important that fashion at Lincoln Center becomes a year-round initiative.
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.