“A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity… — Marsha M. Linehan Copy Share Image
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
“When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts … We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Passivity breeds anxiety. To be healthy, a person needs to be having an impact on his surroundings, uplifting those about him and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Communion with God does not imply turning off your mind but turning it on - to be renewed in our minds. We're… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
“forgiveness is not passivity, dear one. It is power. It is the ability to withstand the pressing, quaking gates of hell. Take… — Lisa-Jo Baker Copy Share Image
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates,… — George Will 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
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan 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
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.” — Pere La Combe Copy Share Image
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what… — Aokigahara29 Copy Share Image
“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
“Huxley’s assertion was that technology would lead to passivity. The ease with which we could consume mind-numbing entertainments and distractions would ultimately… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Likewise, the passive tasks—Facebook, email, television, etc.—are easy. And they are fine in small doses (I’ll likely check my email for thirty… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
