Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 361 authors

Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,… — Mark Hertsgaard
This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents… — Albert Einstein
Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation. — Frederick Lenz
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are… — Frederick Lenz
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect. — Andre Breton
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is… — Richard M. Nixon
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the… — Luther Burbank
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage… — Theodore Roosevelt
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden… — Kenneth Kaunda
There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: passive systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and active systems collect the sunlight that hits your… — Dave Barry
Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive. — Marc Morial
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. — Orrin Woodward
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. — Criss Jami
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody… — Criss Jami
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And… — Bill Gates
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. — William Glasser
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each… — Paul Feig

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