Active Quotes

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Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active… — Victoria Pratt
Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame â€” from a national media machine that rewards them with the… — Wayne LaPierre
Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic… — K. Patricia Cross
Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example. — John Baldoni
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward,… — James Howard Kunstler
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946. — Henry Taube
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played… — John T. Flynn
I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan,… — Daniel Johns
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. — George Takei
Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives… — Christopher Dodd
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but thereâ€™s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly… — Lewis Buzbee
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually… — William Ames
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. — Charles Francis Richter
It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is… — Mary Parker Follett
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there.… — David Abram
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship… — Jeremiah Burroughs
The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the… — Albert Mackey
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be. — John McTiernan

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