Initiative Pitfalls. 2. We suspect we might find "greener grass" somewhere else. The issue - Paralysed will

Initiators know what they want. Desire is the stating point of all achievement.

Initiators push themselves to act. At first we all act alone. We need to push to get the facts that encourage others to move.

Initiators take more risks. To achieve the goal we need to be willing to challenge the odds and take the risks in the face of sometimes insurmountable odds.

Initiators make more mistakes. Even if we don't have the means, when things get moving, the mistakes will allow for moments of growth.

Initiators go with their gut. There is something great to be said about the "gut feel". When a nagging feeling is saying yes or no then it's probably wise to listen.

Initiative Pitfalls. 1. We are afraid we'll be unable let to keep the commitment. The issue - A low sense of security.

Initiative Pitfalls. 3. We expend time and energy only for personal gain. The issue - No surrender to the vision.

Initiative Pitfalls. 4. Our past makes trust difficult. The issue - Emotional baggage.

Initiative Pitfalls. 5. We are lazy and unmotivated. The issue - Apathy and neutrality.

Initiative Pitfalls. 6. We fear the risk of being rejected. The issue - Poor self-esteem

Initiative Pitfalls. 7. We fear the unknown and the unfamiliar. The issue - Low confidence.

Initiative Pitfalls. 8. We don't want to lose our freedom. The issue - An Entitlement Philosophy.

Initiative Pitfalls. 9. We fear being different from others. The issue - Want to be politically correct.

Initiative Pitfalls. 10. We don't really know who we are. The issue - We don't know our gifts and calling.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

I'm generally happier and more easy going when it's warm outside.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Belief is so important in everything. You need to believe in magic. You need to believe in yourself. You need to believe in your family.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

Thats the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily but not completely.

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.

Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

Fidelity is seven tenths of business success.

Altruism is an instinct for survival that may be in our genes--an internal force for goodness in everyone that begins with birth.

If you fail an examination it means you have not yet mastered the subject. With diligent study and understanding you will succeed in passing the exams.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.