Quotes about Passive

Active Evil is better than Passive Good. Votes: 4

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. Votes: 3

Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity Votes: 3

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. Votes: 3

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. Votes: 3

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. Votes: 3

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. Votes: 3

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. Votes: 3

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. Votes: 3

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. Votes: 3

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive. Votes: 3

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. Votes: 3

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest. Votes: 3

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. Votes: 3

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.' Votes: 3

A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not. Votes: 3

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. Votes: 2

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. Votes: 2

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. Votes: 2

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. Votes: 2

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. Votes: 2

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. Votes: 2

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.... Votes: 2

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. Votes: 2

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action. Votes: 2

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. Votes: 2

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us. Votes: 2

To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . . Votes: 2

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. Votes: 2

After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission. Votes: 2

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change. Votes: 2

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers. Votes: 2

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality. Votes: 2

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. Votes: 1

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. Votes: 1

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. Votes: 1

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. Votes: 1

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. Votes: 1

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. Votes: 1

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness. Votes: 1

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing. Votes: 1

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more. Votes: 1

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions. Votes: 1

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. Votes: 1

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration. Votes: 1

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. Votes: 1

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. Votes: 1

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen. Votes: 1

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Votes: 1

Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls. Votes: 1

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. Votes: 1

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. Votes: 1

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. Votes: 1

Guilt loves the passive. Votes: 0

This is passive-aggression in action. Votes: 0

Privacy is not for the passive. Votes: 0

To be silent is to be passive. Votes: 0

All genuine learning is active, not passive. Votes: 0

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style. Votes: 0

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity. Votes: 0

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation. Votes: 0

Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation. Votes: 0

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. Votes: 0

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness. Votes: 0

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as a passive audience. Votes: 0

Be an active reader; not a passive reader. Votes: 0

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive. Votes: 0

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. Votes: 0

Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event. Votes: 0

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive. Votes: 0

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. Votes: 0

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers. Votes: 0

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. Votes: 0

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. Votes: 0

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. Votes: 0

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction). Votes: 0

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency. Votes: 0

Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind. Votes: 0

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. Votes: 0

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. Votes: 0

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses Votes: 0

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred Votes: 0

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. Votes: 0

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses. Votes: 0

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive. Votes: 0

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. Votes: 0

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive. Votes: 0

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude. Votes: 0

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. Votes: 0

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical. Votes: 0

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. Votes: 0

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become. Votes: 0

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. Votes: 0

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. Votes: 0

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. Votes: 0

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. Votes: 0

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive. Votes: 0

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. Votes: 0

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Votes: 0

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. Votes: 0

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me. Votes: 0

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. Votes: 0

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. Votes: 0

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. Votes: 0

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best Votes: 0

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. Votes: 0

Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive Votes: 0

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. Votes: 0

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. Votes: 0

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Votes: 0

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. Votes: 0

Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive. Votes: 0

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded. Votes: 0

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. Votes: 0

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. Votes: 0

Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it. Votes: 0

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith. Votes: 0

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. Votes: 0

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. Votes: 0

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing. Votes: 0

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. Votes: 0

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing." Votes: 0

I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies. Votes: 0

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure. Votes: 0

Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what. Votes: 0

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly. Votes: 0

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred. Votes: 0

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. Votes: 0

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence. Votes: 0

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... Votes: 0

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that. Votes: 0

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. Votes: 0

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. Votes: 0

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to. Votes: 0

Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His. Votes: 0

...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind. Votes: 0

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. Votes: 0

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. Votes: 0

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that. Votes: 0

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ... Votes: 0

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Votes: 0

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. Votes: 0

A passive mindset manages to live with mediocre, but an active mindset leads to change until excellence results. Votes: 0

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul. Votes: 0

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers. Votes: 0

Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams. Votes: 0

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. Votes: 0

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive. Votes: 0

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt. Votes: 0

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. Votes: 0

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin." Votes: 0

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. Votes: 0

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive. Votes: 0

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. Votes: 0

I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient. Votes: 0

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment. Votes: 0

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life. Votes: 0

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write. Votes: 0

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences. Votes: 0

I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.' Votes: 0

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy. Votes: 0

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. Votes: 0

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it. Votes: 0

Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you. Votes: 0

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose". Votes: 0

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive. Votes: 0

Come from a place of love. Love isn't passive or shy. It's actually the most powerful energy in the universe. Votes: 0

I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe. Votes: 0

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. Votes: 0

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. Votes: 0

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. Votes: 0

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. Votes: 0

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. Votes: 0

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. Votes: 0

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. Votes: 0

But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over. Votes: 0

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. Votes: 0

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man. Votes: 0

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. Votes: 0

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. Votes: 0

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. Votes: 0

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. Votes: 0

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work. Votes: 0

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that. Votes: 0

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. Votes: 0

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs. Votes: 0

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis. Votes: 0

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen. Votes: 0

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. Votes: 0

Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying. Votes: 0

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual. Votes: 0

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. Votes: 0

The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh. Votes: 0

Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. Votes: 0

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. Votes: 0

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. Votes: 0

Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation. Votes: 0

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science. Votes: 0

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts. Votes: 0

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect. Votes: 0

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. Votes: 0

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die. Votes: 0

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought. Votes: 0

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? Votes: 0

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. Votes: 0

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage. Votes: 0

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other. Votes: 0

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip. Votes: 0

I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change. Votes: 0

When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors! Votes: 0

Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.-Personal Revolutions Votes: 0

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive. Votes: 0

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution. Votes: 0

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living. Votes: 0

Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun. Votes: 0

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression. Votes: 0

Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking? Votes: 0

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington. Votes: 0

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income. Votes: 0

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice. Votes: 0

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne. Votes: 0

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against. Votes: 0

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic. Votes: 0

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore. Votes: 0

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. Votes: 0

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice. Votes: 0

Unless an investor has access to 'incredibly high-qualified professionals,' they should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors. Votes: 0

Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith. Votes: 0

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive. Votes: 0

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed. Votes: 0

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action. Votes: 0

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers Votes: 0

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality. Votes: 0

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. Votes: 0

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive. Votes: 0

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. Votes: 0

The Bow's passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building's exterior. Votes: 0

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. Votes: 0

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world. Votes: 0

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth. Votes: 0

Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive. Votes: 0

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. Votes: 0

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name. Votes: 0

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives. Votes: 0

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. Votes: 0

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good. Votes: 0

A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it. Votes: 0

You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to. Votes: 0

Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still. Votes: 0

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now. Votes: 0

People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed. Votes: 0

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us. Votes: 0

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. Votes: 0

The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion. Votes: 0

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression. Votes: 0

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive. Votes: 0

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community. Votes: 0

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: passive systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and active systems collect the sunlight that hits your neighbors' homes, too. Votes: 0

Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe. Votes: 0

God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can. Votes: 0

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. Votes: 0

Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch. Votes: 0

Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I dont like passive good guys. Votes: 0

I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys. Votes: 0

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other. Votes: 0

If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow. Votes: 0

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 0

People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything. Votes: 0

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave. Votes: 0

Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive. Votes: 0

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it. Votes: 0

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money. Votes: 0

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win. Votes: 0

I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work. Votes: 0

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. Votes: 0

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it. Votes: 0

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul. Votes: 0

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding. Votes: 0

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. Votes: 0

When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate. Votes: 0

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men. Votes: 0

Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks. Votes: 0

Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient. Votes: 0

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage Votes: 0

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea. Votes: 0

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms. Votes: 0

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me. Votes: 0

... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance! Votes: 0

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius. Votes: 0

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. Votes: 0

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine. Votes: 0

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King. Votes: 0

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind. Votes: 0

The conservative statement is that telomere length is a biomarker, but it's probably not passive. There are some very intimate relationships between things such as molecular markers for inflammation and telomere health. Votes: 0

Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition! Votes: 0

For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive Votes: 0

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state Votes: 0

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions. Votes: 0

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us. Votes: 0

Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions. Votes: 0

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us. Votes: 0

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming. Votes: 0

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads. Votes: 0

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does. Votes: 0

We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance. Votes: 0

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible. Votes: 0

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship. Votes: 0

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. Votes: 0

Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination. Votes: 0

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold. Votes: 0

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people. Votes: 0

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition. Votes: 0

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility. Votes: 0

I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity. Votes: 0

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves. Votes: 0

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength. Votes: 0

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume. Votes: 0

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher. Votes: 0

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction. Votes: 0

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken. Votes: 0

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively. Votes: 0

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness? Votes: 0