Active Quotes · Page 27

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction…

— Douglas Pagels

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

— Richard Ernst

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

— William Godwin

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same…

— Carla Bruni

If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg…

— Jeremy Silman

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

— Shannon Lee

I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.

— Donal Logue

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to…

— Danah Zohar

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic…

— Paul Valery

In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the…

— Tippi Hedren

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love…

— Havelock Ellis

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say…

— Faith Ford

We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying…

— Sandy Carter

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion,…

— Giordano Bruno

Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive…

— Rod Liddle

In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive.…

— Mariana Mazzucato

Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is a glorious, resurrected being. He has the capacity to communicate love…

— Richard G. Scott

I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world...…

— Denis Halliday

The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and…

— H. Richard Niebuhr

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers…

— Daniel Goleman

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military…

— Karl Hess

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking…

— Ramana Maharshi

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

— Arjun Rampal

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

— David F. Swensen

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

— James Baker

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

— Orrin Woodward

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

— Cam'ron

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an…

— Jerzy Kosinski

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have…

— Shay Carl

I've always just been really really active and I never wanted my legs to hold me back.

— Jessica Long

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

— Mort Sahl

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

— Gary Yourofsky

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

— Novalis

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have…

— William Jennings Bryan