I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support… — dream hampton Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure. — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In a movie, you're just passive; you're just watching a story that is told to you. But in games, I saw that… — David Cage 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
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
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
I'm not going to look back. 'Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.' I don't have anything specific in mind.… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the… — Michael LeBoeuf 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
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image