#reactive

After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country. ↗

— Isaac Yeffet

#airport #around #being #came #country

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#behavior #only #rational #reactive #reflex

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#christian #christian right #humanism #movements #reacting

We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#deal #more #need #out #paradigm

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes. ↗

— Courtney Love

#come #easily #me #my number one #number