Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure. — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it. — Anton Yelchin 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
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind. — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye… — Simon Mainwaring 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
Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not… — Judith M Bardwick 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
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
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give.… — Bernard Iddings Bell Copy Share Image
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and… — Thomas Chalmers 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
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has.… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: “Feed me”; “Entertain me”;… — Matthew Kelly 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
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his… — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
