Proactive Quotations

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.' You know, I'm not. I'm a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. I'm more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. I'm more proactive about my health.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.

Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs.

I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

We've always been proactive about sharing our experiences in a variety of areas, including environmental preservation and product stewardship. This Web site is a natural extension of our ongoing commitment to foster awareness and understanding of our work in these important areas. The site's name reflects our belief that a multinational organization can do what's right and win responsibly in a competitive marketplace.

There are communities that have not been as proactive as say, San Francisco and Oakland in having a mutual plan in how to respond or how to prevent certain attacks.

Until now, there was not evidence that the magazines, the tabloids, were taking proactive steps to protect Schwarzenegger.

What we're looking to establish is a 24-hour operation that is doing proactive analysis in the interest of looking for criminal activity and potential terrorist activity, so we can prevent it from happening.

We would welcome a more proactive role from elected officials at the national and state levels in broad-based strategies to address the U.S. health care crisis.

Ultimately, we need to shift from a reactive to a proactive and event-based data protection, something that CDP helps to start to facilitate,

You are what you do, not what you say.

Workflow system support by vulnerability management system providers is becoming more important as the need for proactive risk management and remediation grows, ... Integrating prioritized vulnerability and risk data with trouble ticketing systems enables enterprises to more effectively address the vulnerability management lifecycle from detection through remediation.

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

The reduction in the amount of the special bonds and the budgeted deficits suggest the country plans to speed up withdrawing from the proactive fiscal policy.

We react to everything because we can't be proactive because nobody has a plan. We get arguments between municipalities. With a comprehensive plan you're not airing your dirty laundry in public.

We're here to find a really nice, happy medium. We've been very proactive and empathic and we're trying to find something that fits.

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

She's a teacher. She feels that she wants to be more proactive as an advocate to help others who are thinking about taking a cruise, as well as others who have taken a cruise in the past and thought they were safe.

Minor problem or not, we take every incident very seriously. We address them all with proactive steps.

McAfee's vision and strategy is synergistic to our business goals. McAfee takes security beyond traditional virus protection. It has provided us with a multi-layered security strategy that includes proactive protection from buffer overflows and other advanced threats. With the upcoming availability of McAfee's network access control solution, we'll be able to perform checks at the time of network access -- rounding out our system security strategy with highly detailed insight into our compliance.

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

Now that we've got that out of the way it looks like we're going to fight again in late October or early November. I'll be getting the exact date, hopefully by the end of this week. I'm planning on fighting twice more before the year is up. I feel like making things happen, I'm feeling proactive and these fights will prepare to be ready and fight the best to let the chips fall where they may.

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.

I could stand here and give you all sorts of excuses about why I had the season I did in 2003-04, but I have vowed to be proactive ... in everything I do this season,

Barring exceptional circumstances and provided there is the sustained, proactive cooperation by Iraq, we should be able in the next few months to provide credible assurance that Iraq has no nuclear weapons program.

I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.

I can't really stereotype the whole industry, but they'll be proactive about anti-virus software because they've already seen the effects.

GREDA and the city seem proactive in reaching out to attract new companies to the area. Galesburg has a strong, skilled labor pool.

Getting kicked around as much as I did, you get tired of it. I'm not trying to hit people. But at the same time, hitters were very comfortable facing me last year, much more so last year than any year in the past, obviously. But there's something you can do about that as a pitcher, and you've got to be proactive in doing it. I feel like my command is good enough that I can throw the ball in off the plate and get people off the plate without hurting people.

Fukui is the big business candidate, a trusted hand that will continue to steer Japan on a deflationary course, ... We'll continue to have an accommodative BOJ, not a proactive BOJ.

I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future - see your doctor and be proactive about your health.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

We took a proactive approach, and it worked. We placed sandbags in some hotspots on Monday, and they helped. They would have helped even more if we'd gotten even more rain.

We suggest to our clients, customers need to be proactive and make those phone calls.

underscores the need for a proactive U.S. competitiveness agenda that promotes research and development and encourages a work force skilled in math, science and technology, among other things.

He was proactive about it. He didn't blame the teams and the drivers. He did his part and worked on the racetrack. It's made it better. We're not seeing the problems we had in testing.

He was proactive about it. He didn't blame the teams and the drivers, ... He did his part and worked on the racetrack. It's made it better. We're not seeing the problems we had in testing.

He wants to play through everything, ... But I feel good that we did what we did and took a proactive approach to it.

I would say morale is already crippled, ... And that means you will have less proactive police work. You'll have cops out there who'll say, 'just keep your eyes down, answer your calls, get your pension and retire,' and that's the worst thing that could happen.

Joel Klein has taken antitrust enforcement to a new and higher level of intellectual rigor and forceful advocacy and protection of the public, ... He's been more proactive and consumer minded than many other antitrust enforcers. Joel is a hands-on enforcer who is enormously energetic and supportive of his staff, inspires tremendous loyalty, and has very insightful judgment.

I think it is a proactive step in being a deterrent. I think the presence of an officer is going to make people think twice about drinking underage.

ITA SAFE not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions for their customers. By doing this, banks can recognize reduced operational and customer support expenses, mitigate risk in a proactive manner, and most importantly, increase customer trust online.

ITA S.A.F.E. not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions for their customers. By doing this, banks can recognize reduced operational and customer support expenses, mitigate risk in a proactive manner, and most importantly, increase customer trust online.

I think the contractor's very proactive with this. He's really ready to go. He wants to go to work.

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.

I think we're being proactive by identifying some areas of potential growth. I think it's good on the district's part to go ahead and get these zones aligned now so that when these new homes come in, it won't be such an emotional issue.

It gets down to a question of how proactive stakeholders in Fort Collins want to be in addressing these issues. Some people aren't willing to be proactive, others are, and that's what we're going to find out.

I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.

I think store closure will actually be viewed as a positive and proactive step for the company,

Our protocols already meet or exceed the current European standards and regulations. We commend the European Commission on their forward thinking and proactive approach. This is exactly what the industry needs to secure a stricter set of worldwide guidelines.

Our team has made some progress with being proactive on defense. There's a certain mentality where I wanted us to be. ... Forget statistics, forget about how many points we're giving up, field goal percentage, all that stuff - I think our body language is moving in a way that we're trying to be a little more proactive defensively.

Our girls have been great in being very proactive with understanding their roles in society go beyond just school and athletics. It definitely looked like they enjoyed the opportunity to make a difference in someone else's life. Hopefully with this event and the others they have organized, they realize this is something they need to do beyond their years here at TCU.

Our thought was we could be proactive and not have to wait until after we got smacked. I guess that's not going to happen.

Pierce Transit has been very proactive and very aggressive in their disaster planning. They work closely with our emergency management plan and public safety plan. When we request their help, there's never a question.

I think our successful producers and manufacturers are those that have an entrepreneurial fervor. They remain inventive and proactive and keep looking for new technology that will keep them on the cutting edge. Those that ride a single pony are caught in a time warp and will probably see the world pass them by.

I thought it was a great effort. Tyson (Chandler) was a big lift. I thought he had his best game of the year. Our game was proactive and most importantly, we got a lot of rebounds and second chance opportunities.

I think this is a positive development for both the companies and the industry. The companies are now moving together, looking at a difficult environment for refining and marketing and coming up with proactive ways to combine their entities and hopefully improve their profitability.

I think this is a good example of the township taking a proactive stance rather than reaction, ... I think this is an excellent example of what we should be doing to take the township into the future.

Management has failed to take proactive measures and appears to be reacting only after anthrax-like systems appear, which creates apprehension and fear to postal workers and is detrimental to their health, welfare and safety,

We do have to be really proactive with some students, and it's helping, I think. We're seeing the results, and we saw results in October testing. It really did have an impact.

We're watching the effort being made by the market leader, the company that has been proactive to reaching out to software companies.

Those are things that citizens and people that are getting proactive in their communities are addressing. Getting the word out there is important.

We are saying that our cooperation has been a super cooperation, not just a proactive cooperation.

We are not in a crisis situation, but we are taking proactive steps,

Don't water your weeds.

Where he's being proactive is with leadership. We're better offensively with him.

We are moving to a more proactive stance, ... providing periodic pieces of information to better secure systems and address known vulnerabilities before they fall victim to various types of cyber attack.

We want the public to be aware of the burglaries and to take precautionary measures. Be proactive rather than reactive.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

We view Manasquan downtown as highly retail, ... Fortunately, it's continued to be successful competing with the strip malls, and we'd like to keep it that way. This is more of a proactive step to retain that character as opposed to having it turn into office space.

We come at this in a proactive way, at a very high level. We're saying you can save money by managing your information in a proactive and smarter way up front, by thinking about what information belongs in the repository and also by having the right tools to manage that information.

We don't want to be too proactive getting him back into the lineup. We have to listen to his body.

We have been so disenchanted about our ability to get access to broadband pipes that we felt like we needed to take a more proactive stance. Our model would prefer that we be a non-facilities-based provider, but if you don't have people who own the network willing to sell it to you at a price that you can make a living, you've got to change the name of the game.

We wouldn't be surprised that some ISPs would be reluctant to accept this--part of the reason many have been proactive in blocking spam has been to avoid legislation, and they have made heroic efforts. The problem is, as long as there's not a level playing field, we will have ISPs that court spammers, and we all suffer.

This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such as the dominance of technology and Internet-based brands. Companies that take a proactive approach to managing their brands are in a much better position to earn respect from their customers, as exemplified by the top-ranked brands on the list.

We're trying to be proactive here and prevent a bigger problem.

We're trying to be proactive and not reactive to the situation. We need to have a little more compassion for the underprivileged. It's hard for them to get the help they need because they're looked down upon.

Yet, we believe that that's probably the vigilance of Iraqi security forces and some of our proactive measures the night before probably saved lives.

This really is our book for consumers. When you go to the doctor, if you know there's a gender difference, you can be more proactive about your own health, rather than assuming a doctor will be proactive on your behalf.

We all have a professional responsibility as clubs to live by the confidentiality rules, which are designed to protect players. However the information got out, I hope those people will take that responsibility and let us make any necessary changes. ... I'm going to be proactive in that effort.

We're taking a proactive approach, instead of waiting or seeing if anything happens.

There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless we get the parents to take a more proactive role. And they don't have to be highly educated. All they have to have is a commitment to support this child to get an education.

What I would like to see is the European Commission taking a more proactive stance instead of a wait-and-see approach.

With identity theft being one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States, it is crucial that consumers monitor their identities and adopt good practices for protecting themselves. Only through a combination of proactive monitoring and education can consumers understand how identity theft happens, how to protect themselves, and what steps to take if their identity is stolen. First Community Bank is pleased to provide this informative seminar in an effort to create more awareness and help protect the citizens of this community.

With several major hurricanes impacting the Gulf Coast this year, we have seen first hand how important wireless service can be before, during and after a storm. Proactive planning is key to staying safe during an emergency.

We try to be proactive in cases like this. We followed our own process of being open and proactive.

We think it's important to be proactive and do everything we can to protect our fans. We've conducted millions of these security screenings since 9/11, ... We've been told repeatedly by security experts that our games are an attractive target.

Brands make a powerful impact on people, especially in today's world of ever-increasing consumer choice. This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such as the dominance of technology and Internet-based brands. Companies that take a proactive approach to managing their brands are in a much better position to earn respect from their customers, as exemplified by the top-ranked brands on the list.

Even if you have a good, proactive company, you have obligations, ... Get Your Claim Paid.

Couples need to let go of the notion that something's wrong if you're not enraptured with each other all the time. After the early enchantment stage, it takes proactive behavior to keep your love alive.