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Passive Quotes

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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake

Authors on Passive Quotes: Ravi Ravindra Deepak Chopra Frances Moore LappƩ Annie Lennox Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Michael Pollan Lance Henriksen Claude Bernard John Lydon Octavia Spencer Thomston Deborah Day Marilyn French Arthur Adamov Emily Levine Maureen Murdock Nassim Nicholas Taleb Courteney Cox John Ralston Saul Ian Holm Tom Peters Cate Blanchett Guy P. Harrison William Blake Emraan Hashmi Mary Roberts Rinehart Nawal El Saadawi Bill Willingham B.K.S. Iyengar John Keats F. Scott Fitzgerald Chip Heath Nuala O'Faolain
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.
To be silent is to be passive.
Octavia Spencer

9.
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

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

17.
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Nawal El Saadawi

18.
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
John Keats

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

20.
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
Nuala O'Faolain

21.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Mayim Bialik

22.
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

23.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Christopher Isherwood

24.
Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.
Marc Morial

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

30.
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

31.
McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.
John Ralston Saul

32.
You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.
Rush Limbaugh

33.
Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).
Deepak Chopra

34.
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

35.
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
Michael Pollan

36.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
John Lydon

37.
The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.
Thomston

38.
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
Marilyn French

39.
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

40.
Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.
Maureen Murdock

41.
Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.
Ian Holm

42.
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
Bill Willingham

43.
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

44.
There's no such thing as a passive audience.
Chip Heath

45.
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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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
Danny Boyle

47.
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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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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The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Robert Greene

50.
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.
Abraham Kuyper