Quotes About Proactivity

Success rarely comes to the passive or pessimistic.

Be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf—seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life. Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you—and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does.

I'll always have to make sure things happen eventually and don't slip from my hands, from under my nose. I'll always have to be on my toes.

Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents anything from happening at all.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark, or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Projects are complex non-linear systems and have significant inertia. If you wait to see acute problems before taking action, you will be too late and may make things worse.

But online, there is no way to calibrate. You never see the Skype chats you're not in. Remote work demands social proactivity. Some talented people find these freedoms overwhelming, preferring the structure of space and time that traditional offices provide.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

To succeed, however, it must be done early.

He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then

He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him.

enseignements qui lui serviraient à l'avenir : Il faut toujours prendre soin de simplifier les enjeux, de faire preuve de souplesse, et de réagir vite. Il ne sert à rien de monter les problèmes en épingle ni de se remplir l'esprit de peurs infondées. En sachant déceler les signes annonciateurs de changement, on se prépare d'autant mieux à d'éventuels bouleversements.

Passivity is aggressively doing nothing and allowing life—or anything else—to do everything for you.

ketika kita memandang permasalahan dan beban itu berasal dari diri kita,justru pada saat itu sebenarnya kita lah yang bermasalah. sedangkan pepatah cina mengatakan dari pada mengutuki kegelapan lebih baik ambil sebatang lilin dan nyalakan

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

Employees who consistently behave as though it is your responsibility to "make them successful"; who blame you or others for their lack of success; who don't take the initiative to learn and grow—these employees are not fulfilling a key part of their role. It's easy to get pulled into their worldview; that is, that their role is to be a passive observer of your efforts to "grow" them, and that it's your fault if it doesn't work.

the Lord helps those who help themselves

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.