Quotes About Proactivity

Does he make things happen, or does he make excuses?

Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

Desarrolle la habilidad de percibir los problemas mientras todavía sean pequeños y atacarlos antes de que se vuelvan incontrolables o ya no tengan remedio.

Look wider and think further ahead" must be your motto.

To separate yourself from the mechanical and reactive types, you need to get rid of a common misconception: the essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps; it is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than the enemy does.

No days unalert." Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise. Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it. The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan, the more powerful you become.

acción siempre vence a la pasividad.

is responsive, not proactive. Give him candid feedback. He doesn't show the passion for the role we need.

His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.

Ambitious people tend to get critical assignments. But if having a full plate keeps you from appearing available when a new opportunity arises, you'll be passed over, possibly in favor of some laggard who appears to have plenty of time to take on new duties.

Life is like an 6-slice apple pie at a 12-guest dinner banquet. If you just sit back and wait for it to come to you, chances are, you're going to miss dessert.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.