I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
If you look at the difference games between the bigger and smaller teams, the difference in concentration, and being passive is big;… — Georginio Wijnaldum Copy Share Image
...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
“...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by… — Mignon Fogarty Copy Share Image
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;… — William James Copy Share Image
We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars…Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend… — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had… — Taylor Wilson Copy Share Image
“PASSIVE PAVISSE- ANAGRAM: Shield yourself from aggressors - Walk away without acknowledgement” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I need something to hold fuck that passive aggression and when I'm back from off that road dont ask me no questions. — Wale Copy Share Image
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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we've got a whole group… — Bill Cassidy Copy Share Image
