Quotes About Proactivity

su educación le había enseñado que actuar era preferible a quejarse.

The biggest problem in the world Could have been solved when it was small.

Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one feels thirsty, or forging weapons after the war has already begun. —NEI JING, 2ND CENTURY BC

Mantener el orden en lugar de corregir el desorden es el principio máximo de la sabiduría. Curar la enfermedad después de que ha aparecido es como cavar un pozo cuando uno tiene sed, o forjar armas después de que la guerra ha comenzado. NEI JING, siglo II d. C.

Ordnung zu halten, statt Unordnung aufzuräumen, ist das Grundprinzip der Weisheit. Eine Krankheit zu heilen, nachdem sie aufgetreten ist, ist wie einen Brunnen zu graben, wenn man Durst hat, oder Waffen zu schmieden, wenn der Krieg bereits ausgebrochen ist. – Nei Jing, 2. Jh. v. Chr.

The best things happen to those who don't wait.

teach your brain now .. don't wait until life teach you !

So maybe you should try to find an answer for yourself instead of waiting around to see what Sam's going to do. Doing something is always easier than waiting.

The Balinese don't wait and see how things go. That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.

Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

There's no one way to the top. Make your own opportunities. See around corners. Raise your hand for assignments.

I am not one of those girls who will sit on my bed and crib that nothing is happening with my life and things are not working.

I take the bull by the horns and make a plan and go for it.

The key here is that with planning, you can take advantage of opportunities, where without this planning, you may just watch them pass you by. Like knowing that a key potential customer may be at a conference and putting together a pitch just in case you run into them - or being caught by surprise with nothing coherent to say.

You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Consistent, ongoing innovation and extraordinary closeness to customers is the only possible response.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.

if you lay back and let oblivion roll over you, it will be your fault.

If you want to turn your life around you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you.