Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 361 authors

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive. — B.K.S. Iyengar
If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary… — Johannes Brahms
Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His. — Charles Spurgeon
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. — Virginia Woolf
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign… — Lawrence Venuti
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression… — John Oliver
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the… — Grant Morrison
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as… — Noam Chomsky
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. — John Keats
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates… — Daniel Greenberg
Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord… — Dan Millman
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs.… — Mao Zedong
We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for… — William Butler Yeats
If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon… — David Abram
All genuine learning is active, not passive. — Mortimer Adler
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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