Quotes About Active

I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you're dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.

Ellie's mind was an active and colorful place and she decorated her world with its contents

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

As Alfred North Whitehead once said, "The habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom."13

Compassion and acceptance; stigma and defusion. As described thus far, acceptance and defusion seem, superficially, to be intrapsychic issues, but self-as-context expands their nature. Because perspective taking is social, it is not possible to take a loving, open, accepting, and active perspective on yourself without doing likewise for others.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

forward when you ask an emotionally charged question, and then continuing to lean forward while your prospect answers (while also using the active listening techniques I laid out above in number 3).

Ensuring that we have a well-informed public citizenry is important for a well-functioning democracy, and that in turn requires an active and diverse media.

For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

I had served in the Republic of Korea in the early '80s while I was on active duty as a director of intelligence for U.S. forces Korea, and kind of followed developments on the peninsula ever since.

I was a hyper little kid.

I'm hyper, goofy. I always have to be moving, doing something.

I'm a very hyper person.

I'm not very happy idle.

I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.

We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.

I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Faith is focused entirely on God and exists because of Him. Faith is active, and is completely dissatisfied with theories and ideals that cannot be proven, that do not bear fruit. It derives its life from the voice and nature of God. It is unto God, to bring Him pleasure and glory. Such a life is anything but a comfortable life of caution. It is bold, brave, courageous and risky.

Leadership is an active role 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

have supplied the foundation for recovery. The next two Steps begin the active, day-to-day solution, removing what blocks us from our usefulness to other people and to our Higher Power, and especially (and ultimately) what blocks us from ourselves.