I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated… — Fatema Mernissi 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
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose". — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there… — David Foster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality,… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson 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
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of… — Richard Levins Copy Share Image
You don't want to be passive through motion and then try to produce force. That's very scary. That's where you can injure… — Bryson DeChambeau Copy Share Image
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers.… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation. — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that,… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of… — Stanley Coren Copy Share Image
The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that. — Thomston Copy Share Image
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that… — Joe Tye Copy Share Image
If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a… — John Newbery Copy Share Image
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
