Motivational Speaker Nido Qubein often says, "For the timid, change is frightening, for the comfortable, change is threatening, but for the confident, change is opportunity".
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And on the spending side, while criticizing Mr. Obama's proposals as too timid, the policy changes that the Republicans have endorsed – such as raising the Medicare retirement age and slowing cost-of-living increases for Social Security – fall well short of Mr. Obama's.
And the Democrats in Congress have been too timid in demanding changes.
After all it never led Hegel in that direction: he was notoriously timid about political change.
In tax reform, as 1986 showed, the radical programme can suddenly look easier to implement than the timid package of piecemeal changes.
In previous, more timid, efforts to push changes, Congress had seemed woefully prepared for the anger and resistance of its allies.This time, crucially, the likes of Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, who helps prop up Mr Singh's government in Delhi, will have to be allowed to pull off a delicate act.
He is always very motivated, well respected within his department, not timid in making positive changes, future-oriented and has a unique ability in working with people.
But here, too, change is timid.
A timid question about climate change prompted derision and talk of sub-zero temperatures outside.
