Sophie B. Hawkins

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.

American Musician

Eva Chen

A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn't afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don't always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.

Taiwanese Businesswoman

Felicia Day

There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

American Actress

Jared Cohen

Part of the responsibility of the technology industry is to anticipate the challenges of the vast majority of its future users and proactively start thinking about them now and proactively build products that address those challenges.

American Businessman

Olivia Newton-John

Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

Musician

Kevin Mitnick

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.

John Bel Edwards

We never know when or where harm may strike but, we can take proactive steps to protect ourselves.

American Politician

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

American Educator

Giuliana Rancic

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

American Journalist

Fei-Fei Li

When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive.

Chinese Scientist

Proactive implies taking initiatives before problems arise.

Action-Oriented

'Proactive' often suggests a commendable or positive approach to situations.

Positive Connotation

Being proactive means taking responsibility for one's actions ahead of time.

Responsibility

In business, being proactive is linked to strategic decision making.

Decision Making

A proactive approach is focused on preparing for the future, not the past.

Future Focus

In some cultures, being too proactive may be seen as disrespectful or aggressive.

Cultural Nuance

 Well, I think part of the solution is all the emerging ways that we can measure and connect our health care information. Today, we pretty much live in a reactive, sick-care world, siloed information that doesn't flow. We have the potential to move into a more continuous, real-time proactive world of true health care.

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 So about midway last year, we decided that we were going to apply a lot more machine learning, a lot more deep learning to the problem, and try to be a lot more proactive around where abuse is happening, so that we can take the burden off the victim completely. And we've made some progress recently.

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 We have to be willing, as teachers and parents and entrepreneurs and scientists, we have to be willing to have proactive conversations about race with honesty and understanding and courage, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do,

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 Now, he is more patient than I deserve and much more proactive, much more, about helping than any of us have any right to expect other people to be. So if you need help, you're going to have to ask for it. And by the way, even when someone can tell that you need help,

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 faith-based community which is worth between four and fourteen extra years of life expectancy if you do it four times a month and the biggest thing here is they also belong to the right tribe they were either born into or they proactively surrounded themselves with

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 So as a humanist, I believe in a proactive approach to life. The changes that we want cannot be achieved only by dreaming but require doing as well. The challenges that we face cannot go away if we recoil and retreat into our shells, wishing and imagining

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 You used to have a lot of biologists that had microscopes, and they had magnifying glasses and they were out observing animals. The new biology is proactive. You don't just observe stuff, you make stuff. And that's a really big change

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 and proactive about developing these change agents for Africa so that we don't just leave it to chance but really harness a group of people who are united by one common purpose to bring about peace and prosperity in Africa

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 extra years of life expectancy if you do it four times a month. And the biggest thing here is they also belong to the right tribe. They were either born into or they proactively surrounded themselves with the right people.

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 research program is the only group that is proactively going out and activating a large subset of a marine mammal populations anywhere in the world right now so it really is a very unique program that we're excited to be