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

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

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. 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.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

After I got my law degree and business degree, I went to work for my family, and I spent two years at Hyatt doing a training program. I was really interested in real estate - one reason was that nobody in my family was doing that. I was looking for a place where I could be successful doing something that was my own.

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

In Puerto Rico, I played in all kinds of bands that played salsa and merengue. That's how I saved the money to come to the U.S. We used to play El Gran Combo tunes. Half the band was my friends - we were around 15 - and the other half was my friend's father and his friends from the hospital where he worked. They were all, like, 50.

Our current tax system is broken.

My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.

The human spirit Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.

I mean, families are weird.

Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments like bonds stocks and savings accounts so they can spend more later.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.