Quotes about Initiative

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Storybrand Principle Five: Customers do not take action unless they are challenged to take action.

Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it's officially known, is the product of three private organizations, two of which have official-sounding names: the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The third private group is Achieve Inc., which boasts on its Web page that it helped take the idea of nationalized learning standards from "a radical proposal into a national agenda.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.