Quotes About Active

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

We are giving them the tools that will enable them to be active participants in solving the problems that confront them—now, while they're at home, and in the difficult, complex world that awaits them.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

Often with bigotry it's passive not active.

The cool thing about our fans is that they're not just passive concert goers.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

Children are not passive absorbers of knowledge; rather, they are active constructors of concepts

For almost every peculiar attribute of material nature becomes apparent from the peculiarities of its motion from place to place. [Thus one can distinguish] the corruptible from the incorruptible by [whether it undergoes] motion in a straight line or in a circle, and heavy from light, and passive from active, by [whether it moves] towards the centre or move away from the centre.

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

I am not a player who stays on the edge of the box and waits for a chance.

I love sports. I love being active. I love challenging myself. I was a jock growing up from the time I could walk.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

I'm always moving like a kid. I'm always bouncing around and never sit still.

I was never a playboy but I was an out and about boy.