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I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
Virginia Woolf
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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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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 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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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
John Keats
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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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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Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.
Marc Morial
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I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
Emraan Hashmi
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Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses
Deborah Day
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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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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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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
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The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.
Thomston
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There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
Marilyn French
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.
Abraham Kuyper