Quotes About Passivity

I'm the type of girl who always dreams about being free, but does nothing to move towards that goal.

More and more I was beginning to feel like a spectator in my own life.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity, and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

Hay que gritarle en el oído a la gente, ya que su aparente sordera es una especie de autodefensa, de cobarde y malsana autodefensa. Hay que lograr que se despierte en los demás la vergüenza de sí mismos, que se sustituya en ellos la autodefensa por el autoasco. El día en que el uruguayo sienta asco de su propia pasividad, ese día se convertirá en algo útil.

Hay que lograr que se despierte en los demás la vergüenza de sí mismos, que se sustituya en ellos la autodefensa por el autoasco. El día en que el uruguayo sienta asco de su propia pasividad, ese día se convertirá en algo útil.

Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

Nothing ever happens to me.

Maybe even suicide would have been too active. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

Just as we need pauses between notes for music to sound good, and just as we need punctuation in a sentence for it to be coherent, we should see rest and reflection and passivity—and even sitting on the sofa—as an intrinsic and essential part of life that is needed for the whole to make sense.

Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change.

Hasta el suicidio le habría parecido una medida demasiado «activa». Quizá en algunas vidas uno simplemente flota sin esperar nada más, sin intentar siquiera cambiar. Quizá así fueran la mayoría de vidas.

It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so

The invisible is a hollow in the visible, a fold in passivity, not pure production.

There is passivity right there in activity...And there is activity right there in passivity.

What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?' The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.

Passive," he repeated the word with distaste. "Sometimes, Sarah, it's important not to jump into a swamp until you've properly assessed how many alligators there are.

Passive leisure becomes a problem when a person uses it as the principal-or the only-strategy to fill up free time.

Society is ruled by the harsh maxim: "production for the sake of production." The decline from craftsman to worker, from an active to an increasingly passive personality, is completed by man qua consumer—an economic entity whose tastes, values, thoughts and sensibilities are engineered by bureaucratic "teams" in "think tanks." Man, standardized by machines, is reduced to a machine.