Quotes About Proactive

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

il valait mieux prévenir que guérir.

Antes que me llamen, yo les responderé

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

If the NFL is going to be responsible for what someone is doing in their personal life, there may need to be preventative work early against the incidents that are happening.

I've always been the girl who can't sit on her hands. If there's a pink elephant in the room, I'll identify it and say it.

A number of major companies - from PepsiCo to Walmart to U.P.S. - have recognized that corporations have a responsibility to address the causes of climate change before it is too late. We do not have to wait for an international treaty or new regulations to act.

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

My business is to prevent the future.

Change before you have to.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

In pursuing the cherished goal of gender justice, to mention one example, the Supreme Court of India has always been proactive and progressive.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but god forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.