Quotes About Passivity

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.

To not be engaged in the democratic process, to sit back and let others do the work for us, is to fall prey to bitterness and cynicism. It is the passivity of cynicism that has broken the back of our collective outrage. We succumb to our own depression believing there is nothing we can do.

We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]

Optimists have a positive expectancy that helps them achieve their goals. Theirs is a can-do attitude. They take action, which is empowering. Pessimists take a passive attitude. They play the blame game or focus on what they can't do. As a result, pessimists often become victims of self-fulfilling prophecy.

is boring to most people. Nothing happens. On the other end of the spectrum is the story that uses characters who are simply buffeted around by the story. Things happen to them, and character and

Orgeron hates dead air. He feeds off energy. As in, energy is enthusiasm…enthusiasm breeds confidence…and confidence leads to winning. Silence, conversely, creates lulls, and lulls make people passive. And passivity? Absolutely, utterly forbidden in Ed Orgeron's world.

What black men, women, children did in Albany at that time was heroic. They overcame a century of passivity, and they did it without the help of the national government. They learned that despite the Constitution, despite the promises, despite the political rhetoric of the government, whatever they accomplished in the future would have to come from them.

How easy it was to drift through an unchosen life, in a succession of reactions to events. He

Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark.

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.

I knew he was right. Not that I did anything about it.

She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.

Too much cultivation of beauty, he wrote, reflects pathological narcissism. Like masochism and passivity, narcissism is largely a female problem, a cover for shame and worthlessness, feelings to which women are prone. Until

When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.

So true prayer demands that we be more passive than active; it requires more silence than words, more adoration than study, more concentration than rushing about, more faith than reason. We must understand thoroughly that true prayer is a gift from heaven to earth, the Father to his child; from the Bridegroom to the bride, from him who has to one who has not, from Everything to nothing.

In the twilight of the morning light seems active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening it is the darkness which is active and crescent, and the light which is the drowsy reverse.

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.