Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me. — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle… — Tom Berenger 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
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
“The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'm going to play as hard as I can. If I'm going to make a mistake, it's going to be an aggressive… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the… — Ben Goldacre 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
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-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open… — Paul Feig 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
I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image