Passively Quotes

78 quotes by 70 authors

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they… — John Maeda
To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on.… — Eckhart Tolle
People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to… — Bruce Nash
ThereÂ’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively. — John C. Maxwell
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you… — David Cameron
Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways,… — Jarvis Cocker
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far… — Aldous Huxley
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands… — Will Self
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live… — Bill Watterson
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own… — Bradley Whitford
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
The student is to read history actively not passively. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. — Virginia Woolf
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will… — Bell Hooks
Itâ€™s true that someone will always say that good and evil donâ€™t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real… — Amelie Nothomb
I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed… — Nora Roberts
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. — Stanislav Grof
And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people?… — Orson Scott Card

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