Quotes About Active

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.

When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.

Isocrates was ninety years old in 346 BCE but as active an opinion-former as ever.

The traveler was active, he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience," Daniel Boorstin opined in 1961. "The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

The Church is a living body; continuously active, continuously performing Christ in the myriad contexts within which it operates. It comprises those conformed to Christ in the past, being conformed to Christ in the present and who will be conformed to Christ in the future.

But it can be liberating to see how thoughts pull the levers of emotion—and how negative emotions in turn set the stage for patterns of thinking that keep them active and coloring one's mind.

It would seem that losing the sadness would be a good thing, but it has been replaced by nothing -a quiet acceptance of this boring, everyday life. I think it's even worse than being miserable. At least being miserable is active.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

No one wants to believe that the formula for happiness is as simple as daydreaming, controlling your schedule, napping, eating right, and being active every day.

To wisdom's final fruit, profoundly true: Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. Thus here, by danger girt, the active day Of childhood, manhood, age will pass away.

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

I have a great life and I'm super active.

I've really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can't even express to you how happy it has made me.

Veritably, what establishes and defines, the hundreds of thousands of useless numbers on social media, when a few ones of that stay active? - Indeed, garbage cannot beautify and impregnate with fragrance the streets.

Who is the learner and what is his or her relationship to knowledge and learning? Is he or she basically good or evil (or both)? Passive or active in learning? Capable of choice, or has life already been determined somehow? Motivated internally or externally? An unmarked slate or having unrealized potential? These questions are answered every day in every classroom, daycare center, or basketball court—answered by the way children are viewed and treated by adults.

HAARP HAARP stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It was made to "beam 1.7 gigawatts (billion watts) of radiated power into the ionosphere—the electrically-charged layer above Earth's atmosphere."26

Earth: grounding, abundance; receptive and passive • Air: communication, intellect; projective and active • Fire: passion, creativity; projective and active • Water: emotion, sensitivity; receptive and passive