Quotes About Passivity

alla fine prevaleva quel piatto e anestetizzante trascorrere del tempo, che non accendeva l'entusiasmo ma neppure infliggeva sofferenza.

I said that, on the contrary, I had come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible.

All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.

Physical inertia favors mental passivity and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion.

Fascinating to Hannah, who has constructed her life as a means of exploiting her own passivity, to be forced to see how free she is: how alert, excited, aroused and aware and in a state of anticipation she really is, and not "fated.

Lord, I hate being lulled into passivity and staying trapped when You are calling me to action. I will take responsibility for my life today and start turning my wishes into reality. Amen.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

Jesus abhors both passivity and violence as responses to evil.

It is very easy to never fall down: Just don't ever do anything.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.

Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...

Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.

tolerance is] the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

At the onset of labor, the woman was placed in the lithotomy (supine) position, chloroformed, and turned into the completely passive body on which the obstetrician could perform as on a mannequin. The labor room became an operating theatre, and childbirth a medical drama with the physician as its hero.

Only a fool would sit on the sidelines hoping for something worthy of mention to happen to them

Swept away was a fortuitous choice of words: it made her mad. She'd been swept away once—she'd let herself be, hoped and desired to be; that's how it always went in romantic stories. She'd never be that passive again. It was far, far better to choose,

You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit. I believed him. I felt this to be true. Some people might consider that passivity but I did not. I considered it living.

India's passivity over time, and its dislike of clash, offends the Swami. Though admitting that Gandhi broke with that tradition—recognizing that Gandhi was neither passive nor afraid of a clash

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

I tried to explain about refusing an unsought gift, about action versus passivity.

Femeia rec?zuse în t?cerea ei pasiv?, aÅŸa cum cade o piatr? în ap?.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.