Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 370 authors

There's no such thing as a passive audience. — Chip Heath
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to… — L. Tom Perry
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be… — Saul Alinsky
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it… — Betty Friedan
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into… — Robert Greene
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized,… — Robert Greene
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect… — Derek Bailey
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes,… — Gerhard Richter
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/femaleâ€¦In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked… — Laura Mulvey
In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing....'Love thy work', and you will be successful..... If… — Konosuke Matsushita
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping… — Richard A. Falk
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends… — Alexandre Kojeve
Desire is the putting of my will into Godâ€™s concern. Itâ€™s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of… — Jim Elliot
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body… — Marshall McLuhan
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing… — J. C. R. Licklider
Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me… — Shigeru Miyamoto
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a… — John Herschel
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.… — Paul Volcker

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