Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society… — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive,… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
I was making Marvel Studios movies, Amy Pascal was running Sony. Occasionally, she would share drafts with certain people at the studio… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. — Criss Jami 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
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
“If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
