Passive famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
-- Bill Willingham -
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
-- Claude Bernard -
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
-- Courteney Cox -
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
-- Danny Boyle -
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 -
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
-- Edith Hamilton -
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 -
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.
-- Emraan Hashmi -
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
-- Harold E. Varmus -
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
-- Hermann Ebbinghaus -
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
-- Jean Houston -
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
-- Kurt Lewin -
Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.
-- Marc Morial -
There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.
-- Marilyn French -
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
-- Mayim Bialik -
Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
-- Nawal El Saadawi -
Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.
-- Ravi Ravindra -
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
-- Robin Morgan -
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.
-- T. Harv Eker -
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
-- Tom Peters -
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
-- Virginia Woolf -
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
-- William Glasser -
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 -
Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses
-- Deborah Day -
Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.
-- Jimmy Rollins -
Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.
-- Maureen Murdock -
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
-- Nuala O'Faolain -
The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.
-- Thomston -
Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.
-- Guy P. Harrison -
Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.
-- Ian Holm
