Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one.… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes.… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Dynamic/Active vs. Static/Passive. The Biblical statement, '...and with knowledge gain understanding, and with understanding gain wisdom'- NT (passim), speaks to an active… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
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![“You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an…” quote by Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d74/gloria-steinem-277_active_you-can-t-be-what-you-can-t-see-so-it-s_3207162.jpg)
