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Passive Quotes

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake

Authors on Passive Quotes: Ian Holm Courteney Cox John Ralston Saul Tom Peters Cate Blanchett Guy P. Harrison William Blake Emraan Hashmi Mary Roberts Rinehart Nawal El Saadawi F. Scott Fitzgerald Bill Willingham B.K.S. Iyengar John Keats Simone de Beauvoir Chip Heath Nuala O'Faolain William Glasser Danny Boyle Harold E. Varmus Madonna Ciccone Amma Asante Paul Mooney Jimmy Rollins Robert Greene Christopher Isherwood Jean Houston Virginia Woolf Diane Ravitch Marc Morial Anne Sweeney Abraham Kuyper Mayim Bialik
2.
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
Virginia Woolf

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Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Arthur Adamov

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

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

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

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

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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

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To be silent is to be passive.
Octavia Spencer

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

19.
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
John Keats

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

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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Mayim Bialik

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Harold E. Varmus

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As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
Amma Asante

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Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.
Jimmy Rollins

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The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Robert Greene

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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

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

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

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Privacy is not for the passive.
Jeffrey Rosen

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This is passive-aggression in action.
Chuck Palahniuk

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

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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

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

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