Quotes About Active

My brain is just always going and going and going.

I've one of those brains that doesn't quieten down.

I think the best learning is done with active manipulation. And we need to be able to work with our hands; it's not just about using our brains.

We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

I am busy all day long. Never bored - I don't know what the word means.

I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing.

I love being busy.

I'm constantly busy.

You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we've got a whole group just deciding to sit on their palms.

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing do it with all your might. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. ~

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary.

The one thing in the world of value is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man.

Waiting is a very active part of living. Waiting on God, if we do it correctly, is anything but passive. Waiting works its way out in very deliberate actions, very intentionally searching the Scriptures and praying, intense moments of humility, and self-realization of our finiteness. With the waiting comes learning. I can't think of much I've learned that's positive from the times I've plowed ahead without waiting on God.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called "engaged.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called "engaged." They are more alert, more intellectually active, less willing to be satisfied with superficially attractive answers, more skeptical about their intuitions. The psychologist Keith Stanovich would call them more rational.

Aristippus urges us to actively manipulate what is in front of us in order to maximize our pleasure. Man is the architect of his own pleasure dome.

It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers.