If you never budge, don't expect a push.
Interpretation
Change requires effort; if you don't make a move, you won't see results.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of taking action and making changes in order to achieve desired outcomes. It suggests that without proactive behavior and a willingness to adapt, one cannot expect external forces to provide assistance or drive progress in their life.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech to inspire employees to take initiative.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.
If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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