In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs,… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma - it's preordained so why bother trying to change their… — Mary T Browne Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right… — Eleanor Duckworth Copy Share Image
Engineers are either aggressive or passive aggressive. You need to just dive straight into it, and sometimes there are social repercussions because… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
Sadly, I have met very few people who have a plan for their life. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold,… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
“One of the most terrifying questions of all might be, ‘Will I unleash myself to live before death unleashes me from the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Being passive sends wrong message that your thoughts and feelings aren't as important as those of other people.,When you're too passive, you… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to look at every Muslim woman the same and to assume that every experience within the religion is… — Nia Long Copy Share Image