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.
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.
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