Quotes About Passive

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Survival is a passive way of saying "my needs are greater than yours.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

I have the choice of being active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one's goals. —

Being lazy, full of himself; these elements also helped to render him docile.

Here is the crux of the strategy: Instead of hiring an expert, or spending a lot of time trying to decide which stocks or actively managed funds are likely to be top performers, just invest in index funds and forget about it!

Winston Churchill wisely said, "First we shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us." Exegete the architecture of a typical church building and you'll quickly discover that it effectively teaches the church to be passive.

But this leaves us with a very difficult question. Is there a way to move from our worry-filled life to the life of the Spirit? Must we simply wait passively until the Spirit comes along and blows away our worries? Are there any ways by which we can prepare ourselves for the life of the Spirit and deepen that life once it has touched us?

The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

If you look at the difference games between the bigger and smaller teams, the difference in concentration, and being passive is big; that is my opinion.

Rather than be passively nudged into acting wisely, he believes, we can be learn to be risk-savvy with the rule of thumb and so choose to act wisely ourselves.

Toutes les civilisation sont déchues, mais les mode diffèrent : la déchéance orientale est passive; la déchéance occidentale, active. La faute de l'Orient déchu, c'est qu'il ne pense plus; celle de l'Occident déchu, qu'il pense trop, et mal. L'Orient dort sur des vérités; l'Occident vit dans des erreurs.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

We have trouble overcoming the four factors—flawed beliefs, insufficient experience, a passive stance, and a concrete reasoning style—that emerged from the contrasting twins study.

Soft people who frequently complain about the smallest annoyances, who give in to laziness and excess, who expect others to work so that they can rest, who collapse into passive entertainment instead of active exercise — these are souls custom-made to become all but irrelevant in kingdom warfare. They are no threat to anyone — least of all to Satan.

Victims are passive aggressive. When you don't acknowledge their old pain, they get pissed. Then

The Six Diseases: 1. The desire for victory. 2. The desire to resort to technical cunning. 3. The desire to display all that has been learned. 4. The desire to awe the enemy. 5. The desire to play the passive role. 6. The desire to get rid of whatever disease one is affected by.

1/ Serene 2/ In a world full of troubles 3/ i.e. Doing nothing about it.

Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it's a weak force. Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The latter demands an effort, one with implicit sacrifice and hardship, one demanding all the higher qualities of what we call virtues.