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Passive Quotes

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake

Authors on Passive Quotes: Marc Morial Virginia Woolf Diane Ravitch Mahatma Gandhi Anne Sweeney Abraham Kuyper Mayim Bialik Jeffrey Rosen Rush Limbaugh Chuck Palahniuk Frances Moore LappƩ Ravi Ravindra Deepak Chopra Lance Henriksen Annie Lennox Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Michael Pollan John Lydon Octavia Spencer Claude Bernard Marilyn French Thomston Deborah Day Nassim Nicholas Taleb Arthur Adamov Emily Levine Maureen Murdock John Ralston Saul Ian Holm Courteney Cox Guy P. Harrison Tom Peters Cate Blanchett
2.
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
Virginia Woolf

3.
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Arthur Adamov

4.
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
Jean Houston

5.
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
Paul Mooney

6.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Mary Roberts Rinehart

7.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

8.
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
Diane Ravitch

9.
To be silent is to be passive.
Octavia Spencer

10.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir

11.
Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
Ravi Ravindra

12.
I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.
Madonna Ciccone

13.
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.
Annie Lennox

14.
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
Courteney Cox

15.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
William Glasser

16.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Mayim Bialik

17.
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
Tom Peters

18.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Nawal El Saadawi

19.
After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. Iyengar

20.
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
John Keats

21.
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
Nuala O'Faolain

22.
Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.
Marc Morial

23.
You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.
Cate Blanchett

24.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Christopher Isherwood

25.
We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
Frances Moore LappƩ

26.
Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.
Guy P. Harrison

27.
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
Emraan Hashmi

28.
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses
Deborah Day

29.
You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.
Rush Limbaugh

30.
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
Claude Bernard

31.
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.
Emily Levine

32.
McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.
John Ralston Saul

33.
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.
Abraham Kuyper

34.
The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.
Anne Sweeney

35.
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.
Mahatma Gandhi

36.
This is passive-aggression in action.
Chuck Palahniuk

37.
Privacy is not for the passive.
Jeffrey Rosen

38.
Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).
Deepak Chopra

39.
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.
Lance Henriksen

40.
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
Michael Pollan

41.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
John Lydon

42.
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
Marilyn French

43.
The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.
Thomston

44.
Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.
Maureen Murdock

45.
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

46.
Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.
Ian Holm

47.
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Bill Willingham

48.
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

49.
There's no such thing as a passive audience.
Chip Heath

50.
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
Danny Boyle