Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 368 authors

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their… — Seymour Papert
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking… — Toni Morrison
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most… — Mary Parker Follett
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays… — Unknown Author
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of… — George Orwell
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive… — Emily Levine
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks… — Heather Brooke
The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become. — Anne Sweeney
After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that… — Eugene Fama
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement.… — Joan Didion
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to. — Yotam Ottolenghi
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Engineers are either aggressive or passive aggressive. You need to just dive straight into it, and sometimes there are social repercussions because of it. The… — Ruchi Sanghvi
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences. — L. Lionel Kendrick
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. — Noam Chomsky
I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient. — Dave deBronkart
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed… — William T. Vollmann

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