Passive Quotes

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

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

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

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

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

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

To be silent is to be passive.

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

Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

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.

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

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

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

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

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses

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.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

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

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

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

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

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.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

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

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

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.

There's no such thing as a passive audience.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

This is passive-aggression in action.

Privacy is not for the passive.