Passive Quotes · Page 23

But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective…

— Rebecca Mead

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most…

— John Isner

Many of the women who I've taught to climb have a better sense of balance than the men. I think it has…

— Lynn Hill

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively…

— Noam Chomsky

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that…

— Johannes Brahms

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into…

— W. H. Auden

This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers…

— Albert Einstein

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty,…

— Steve Maraboli

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

— Grigory Sanakoev

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

— Ariel Pink

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

— Nuala O'Faolain

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…

— Etty Hillesum

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

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

— Deepak Chopra

But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.…

— Stephen Spender

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

— Anonymous

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;…

— Stephen King

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

— Ela Bhatt

The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling…

— Irvine Welsh

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

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to…

— Annie Lennox