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 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 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. 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.

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you. I loved you so "it was heaven here with you.

I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.

I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible.

Im tired of trying sick of crying I know Ive been smiling but inside Im dying.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little provided you are not equally courteous to all for that would be injustice.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Not everybody who supports Donald Trump, not everyone who supports Hilary Clinton, are exactly the kind of people that you want as supporters.

You dont go around grieving all the time but the grief is still there and always be.

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

I look forward to going to work. Everybody is at the top of their game. It was like we just got to play.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury.

The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else.