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
I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. — Merton Miller 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
I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's… — Susan Vreeland 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
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
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
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from… — Wendell Berry 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
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't… — Sasha Abramsky 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
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
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am… — Loulou de la Falaise Copy Share Image
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that… — Gloria Steinem 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
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [my… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
