Quotes About Proactive

More than stopping the counter-attack when it happens you want to prevent it from starting.

TF: Decide beforehand—and not reactively when emotions run high—what types of findings are worth acting upon or ignoring, and what your "if/then" actions will be

You can't operate by hindsight.

So I banish about ninety per cent of my worries by taking these four steps: Writing down precisely what I am worrying about. Writing down what I can do about it. Deciding what to do. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.

Here is question No. 1—What am I worrying about? (Please pencil the answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 2—What can I do about it? (Please write your answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 3—Here is what I am going to do about it. Question No. 4—When am I going to start doing it?

If you want to make a real difference for psychiatric illness like depression, you have to do something before the kids get sick in the first place," Kovacs commented. "The real solution is a psychological inoculation." EATING

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Prevention is better than cure,

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs.

Start before you're ready.

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

The pursuit of market-rate pay equity is about far more than respect. It's a matter of fairness, considering the increased workload that New York's Finest has assumed to not only make us the safest big city in America but to also take a more proactive role in strengthening community-police relations.

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

You may want to begin by asking yourself, "What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?" That will give you a good starting point for defining your standards.

Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action. Getting

What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?

Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill Focus