Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 370 authors

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. — Claude Bernard
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the… — Clay Shirky
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is… — Leo Buscaglia
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. — T. Harv Eker
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may… — Aberjhani
The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh. — Robert Kiyosaki
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just… — Rajneesh
A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be… — Barbara Walters
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks… — Rajneesh
Privacy is not for the passive. — Jeffrey Rosen
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive… — Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane… — Michael Jackson
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard… — Mahatma Gandhi
It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski… — Cintra Wilson
A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden,… — Hazel Hawke

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