Actively Quotes

333 quotes by 307 authors

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite. — Kiera Cass
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. — Alan Paton
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. — David Eagleman
Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and… — Jane Green
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more… — Victor Serge
He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is… — Emma Forrest
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create â€” or guarantee â€” existence. Hence, my compulsion to make â€œlists.â€ The things… — Susan Sontag
Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the… — Chuck Klosterman
In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that… — Susan Cain
If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior.… — Augusten Burroughs
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life. — Kay Redfield Jamison
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. — Irvin D. Yalom
[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives… — BrenÃ© Brown
In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes.… — Rainbow Rowell
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential,… — Christopher Reeve
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. — James A. Baldwin
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. — Seth Godin
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks. — Derrick Bell
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. — Shiv Khera

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