What's the difference between creative and proactive?

Creative


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (2) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (3) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
  • (4) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
  • (5) Creative phosphokinase and non-specific dehydrogenase methods gave the best results but became positive only 5-6 hr after infarction.
  • (6) A theory of action is presented which illustrates that certain forms of action are ones from which learning is not possible, but when the form of action is experiential or creative, then learning from it follows--as a result of both monitoring and reflecting.
  • (7) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (8) Similarities are pointed out between tasks used for the purpose of operationally defining the schizophrenic 'deficit' and tasks used to define creativity.
  • (9) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
  • (10) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
  • (11) For creativity to flourish, schools have to feel free to innovate without the constant fear of being penalised for not keeping with the programme.
  • (12) Soon after the takeover, PFD creative director Sue Douglas, the former Sunday Express editor, left amid reports that the company wasn't big enough for "two alpha females in Chanel".
  • (13) Thus, local knowledge and creativity can be utilized.
  • (14) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
  • (15) It is the alumni of great research universities that drive economic growth through the opportunity to use their expertise and creativity in businesses, in particular by solving problems and developing new products for demanding customers.
  • (16) That said, Turin’s creative scene is quite underground, so you have to seek out the best work.
  • (17) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
  • (18) A successful economy and a healthy, creative, open and vibrant democratic society depend on a flourishing creative sector,” Corbyn said.
  • (19) Internal chaos is highly productive for a creative person.
  • (20) This creativity frequently emerges from an aesthetic, poetic sense of freedom derived from work, an uninhibited playful activity of exploring a medium for its own sake.

Proactive


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
  • (2) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
  • (3) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
  • (4) As management of HIV infection becomes more proactive, early identification of persons at risk for PCP and initiation of preventive therapy will become more routine, and the clinical impact of P. carinii may be ameliorated.
  • (5) What I can say is that it was a disaster and a betrayal to Ludlam, and I can only apologise for not having been more proactive in defending him.
  • (6) However, this was pursued at the expense of proactive protection.
  • (7) Health science schools must be more aggressive in their approaches to dealing with smoking prevention and cessation, and assume a more proactive leadership role toward achieving a smoke-free environment.
  • (8) However, their errors on the latter were not typical of patients with frontal lesions, and they performed normally on a letter fluency task and exhibited normal release from proactive interference.
  • (9) Without proactive measures, they are excluded from emergency care.
  • (10) Diamond stressed that Barclays had "voluntarily and proactively disclosed to HRMC" the scheme it had used when buying back its debt in "a tax efficient matter".
  • (11) Liverpool have taken a proactive stance on the latest unseemly episode to involve Suárez, in contrast to the fall-out to last season's controversy with Patrice Evra when he received an eight-match suspension and £40,000 fine for using racially abusive language against the Manchester United defender.
  • (12) Progressive steps set out include listing all expenditure over £250; proactively circulating information regularly requested through Freedom of Information; and openly publishing more contracts.
  • (13) As predicted, release from proactive inhibition was found with shifts from ambiguous colors to names as well as with shifts from names to the ambiguous colors.
  • (14) "Rather than simply asking the teaching staff – who are already incredibly busy – we took it upon ourselves to try to remedy the problems in a bid to be more proactive about personal development and experience.
  • (15) The task employed was a modification of the release from proactive inhibition technique similar to that used by Wickens, Born, and Allen (1963).
  • (16) Despite the buoyant jobs market, this week’s jobs figures recorded a rise in “inactivity”, suggesting that the drift is now from proactive jobseeking to passivity, precisely the opposite of that manifesto pledge.
  • (17) The physiological effects of stress, and the possible relationship to patients and their carers, leads the author to highlight the need for further research, and possible benefit of proactive intervention for the bereaved.
  • (18) We proactively worked with law enforcement in Massachusetts and South Carolina at the time to share information and aid their investigations.
  • (19) We are allowed to spend a significant percentage of our expenditures on lobbying and we are very proactive in lobbying for liberty-based policy, including the urgently needed pension reform.
  • (20) This united effort between leaders in practice and leaders in education enhanced the success of this proactive approach.