Positive Being Proactive Quotes & Sayings

People use each other as markers for what's real, so you can't be alone anymore. Solitude draws suspicions.

pg. 163 — S.K. Kalsi

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass. — Joan Collins

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise. — David Small

What the Gospels offer is not a philosophical explanation of evil - what it is or why it's there - but the story of an event in which the living God deals with it — N. T. Wright

We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy. — Carl Icahn

Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change. The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative. — Stephen Covey

New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete. — Douglas Rushkoff

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. — Ayelet Waldman

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to. — Arshile Gorky

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. — Peter De Vries

I am joyfully responsible for myself, my own happiness, and creating a joyful life. — Amy Leigh Mercree

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now. — Van Morrison

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much. — Peter Weir