Passive Quotes · Page 5

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

— Karen Kingsbury

“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

— Studs Terkel

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

— Michael LeBoeuf

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

— Gero Miesenbock

“It is never ideal to be passive by accepting whatever is personally unacceptable.”

— Steven Redhead

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

— Jean Houston

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.

— Robert Dallek

I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see.…

— Junot Diaz

A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go…

— Brian Crozier

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody…

— Margaret Mahy

My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to…

— George Saunders

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. See, I just said I need to be quiet, but that's…

— Natalie Maines

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be…

— W. H. Auden

The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is…

— Jeanne Gang

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over…

— Gary Paulsen

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and…

— Joseph Joubert

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced…

— Erich Fromm

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a…

— Eve Ensler

“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders…

— Jane Jacobs

“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection,…

— Martha Stout

Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,…

— Alexander Hamilton

In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality,…

— Max Beerbohm

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

— Rich Lowry

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.

— Choi Woo-shik

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

— Tim Ferriss

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

— T. Harv Eker

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

— Cyndi Lee

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

— Tom Peters

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

— Sylvia Plath

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

— Tyler Perry

Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what.

— Rush Limbaugh

“There is nothing passive about passive-aggressive behavior.”

— Charles F. Glassman

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

— Martha Nussbaum

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

— L. Tom Perry

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

— Karl Liebknecht