Quotes About Proactivity

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn't going to come along and cut your grass.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Good managers have a bias for action.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

Do you see . . . So this is what one ought to be capable of at some point. Not to wait (which is what has been happening until now) for powerful things and good days to turn you into something but to preempt them and to be it yourself already: this is what one ought to be capable of at some point.

We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining

if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been

As his grandfather said in that sage Pequot Indian manner of his, Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee." – Benjamin Franklin

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

Only a fool would sit on the sidelines hoping for something worthy of mention to happen to them

I believe fully that if you want to do something, you just go do it. You can sit around, think about it, waiting until things are perfect, wringing your hands, dithering and hesitating and slowly twisting your panties into a perfect little fisherman's knot. Or you can get up off your lazy fucking ass and do something. What's the worst that can happen?