Quotes About Proactivity

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

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

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it!

If your ship doesn't come in, Swim out to meet it!

A smart rabbit doesn't wait until the hounds are on her tail before she digs her burrow.

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

If your house is on fire, you don't comfort yourself with the thought that houses have been catching fire for thousands of years. You don't sit idly back and think, "Oh well, that is the way of nature." You get going, immediately. And you don't spring into action because of an idealistic notion that houses deserve to be saved. You do it because if you don't, you won't have a place to live.

Now, I see that it's like saving money, you can't save for when you get laid off, after you get laid off; rather, you have to save while you have a job and the money is still coming in. Life is like that, you have to DO while you are able to think of what you want, what you like, what needs it will fill, how it will enhance your life, how it will help you to maintain you, so that you have some reserves when crunch time comes.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Life has a way of getting away from you. Seems to me it's always better to get things out there and deal with them.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

I like clever people. Dull ones irritate me, especially those who expect to be told what to do, and if they are not told, do nothing, even when something that needs doing is right in front of them.

He had forgotten the golden rule of cold, which the DS had told us over and over: 'Don't let yourself get cold. Act early, while you still have your senses and mobility. Add a layer, make shelter, get moving faster – whatever your solution is, just do it.

THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

At 16, 19, 20, you're just kinda going along with whatever's happening. You're not as proactive as you become when you're older. And particularly, something like fame that's happening so quickly - the requests are coming so quickly for you to do interviews or photo shoots, or you're getting work opportunities or whatever, it's happening so fast.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

The wheel that squeaks the loudestIs the one that gets the grease.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.