In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays. — Thundercat Copy Share Image
People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive.… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
“To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
A mind that is positive cannot be controlled. For the purposes of occult dominion, minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative… — Edith Starr Miller Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking,… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads… — Nikolai Berdyaev 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
The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient. — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
