Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 368 authors

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. — Robert Dallek
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water.… — Inga Muscio
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. — Sylvia Plath
I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few… — Bill Ackman
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive… — Taylor Wilson
Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes… — Scott Weiss
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus
People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy. — Ariel Pink
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not… — James Humes
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and… — William Godwin
Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. — Merton Miller
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. — Robin Morgan
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active… — James Weldon Johnson
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. — Claude Bernard
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science. — Rupert Sheldrake
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake
We know the presence of each passing moment by its activity, but the power and eternity of the moment can only be realized through our… — Guy Finley
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at,… — John Keats
I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it. — James Caviezel

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