The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences. — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it,… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture… — Joan Didion 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
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity...… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10… — Scott Weiss Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
