Proactivity Quotes

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
― Howard Zinn

“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”
― Nora Roberts, Morrigan's Cross

“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
― Hugh Laurie

“We have within us the power to choose how we respond to a hurtful situation. We cannot control the actions of others, but we can control how we will respond. As we understand our power to choose, we see that we are in control. Our life is not a result of our environment or upbringing, but a result of our choices. We have the ability to determine the kind of life we want to live and the type of person we wish to be.”
― Cameron C. Taylor, 8 Attributes of Great Achievers

“Better light a candle than curse the darkness.”
― Confucius possibly

“You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait; but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Before you go out and occupy Wall Street, occupy your own brain!”
― Tai Lopez

“Change what you can, manage what you can't.”
― Raymond McCauley

“If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Making appointments with yourself and scheduling other things around them is key to proactive self-management.”
― Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want

“Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.”
― Norman Doidge M.D.

“Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit a message?”
― Patricia Hamill, Fearless

“Be proactive”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Si deseamos que la prosperidad y el bienestar hagan de nuestro hogar su morada, deberíamos cuidar —con pulcritud y esmero— aquellos tesoros que se nos dieron. Aquello que, con dignidad, llamamos «nuestro».”
― Monica Lombo, Los ladrones del alma (Libroespejo del alma)

“Perhaps the most tragic ignorance is that of responsibility.”
― Anonymous

“Recognize and beware of the snare.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Proactive interventions to increase the quality of life as well as prevention in psychiatry can be furthered through intrapersonal education. This new kind of inner education will emphasise a conscious focus on the individual as a starting point for transformation towards sustainable lifestyles and society. To change one’s internal functioning is the most positive step one can take to contribute towards increase for personal and world harmony.”
― Dr. Helena Lass

“Anytime we think the problem is "out there", that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Living life is a bit like exploring an unknown island. Through schooling and upbringing, you are gradually shown a small part of it, yet the majority of the territory stays uncharted. It’s up to you to plunge forward and proactively set foot in that area.”
― F. R. Amoeno, 55 Life Lessons from Amoeno’s Island

“Remind yourself that you can take neither the full credit nor blame for the outcomes in your life. There is always a factor of randomness involved. However, you should try your best, be proactive, and strive toward having a sense of control in life.”
― F. R. Amoeno, 55 Life Lessons from Amoeno’s Island

“Resilience versus Robustness.
Typically when we want to improve a system’s ability to avoid outages, handle failures gracefully when they occur and recover quickly when they happen, we often talk about resilience. (…) Robustness is the ability of a system that is able to react to expected variations, Resilience is having an organisation capable of adapting to things that have not been thought of, which could very well include creating a culture of experimentation through things like chaos engineering.
For example, we are aware a specific machine could die, so we might bring redundancy into our system by load-balancing an instance, that is an example of addressing Robustness. Resiliency is the process of an organisation preparing itself to the fact that it cannot anticipate all potential problems. An important consideration here is that microservices do not necessarily give you robustness for free, rather they open up opportunities to design a system in such a way that it can better tolerate network partitions, service outages, and the like. Just spreading your functionality over multiple separate processed and separate machines does not guarantee improved robustness, quite the contrary, it may just increase your surface area of failure.”
― Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

“In your response to life’s challenges always choose proactivity over passivity.”
― Nontobeko Jobe

“Salgamos en busca de faros emocionales que nos ayuden a reorientarnos hacia puertos más seguros, hacia mejores resultados.”
― Monica Lombo, Los ladrones del alma (Libroespejo del alma)

“Si queremos que nuestros mañanas sean distintos de nuestros ayeres, si deseamos que la prosperidad y el bienestar hagan de nuestro hogar su morada, deberíamos cuidar —con pulcritud y esmero— aquellos tesoros que se nos dieron. Aquello que, con dignidad, llamamos «nuestro».”
― Monica Lombo, Los ladrones del alma (Libroespejo del alma)