Quotes About Passive

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

The leaders of the church know perfectly well that prayer is not intended to gratify the devout. So that, every time they accept a donation in return for some petition, they are accepting a gross negation of their faith: a faith that depends on the passive acceptance of the devout and not on their making demands for betterment

But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky.

Conflicts at work tend to fester when people passively avoid problems, because people lack the skills needed to initiate a direct, yet constructive conversation

For example, if people think you are passive in meetings when you simply need time to think before speaking, their perceptions begin to shape what opportunities are offered to you. Soon your boss is passing you over for chairing a committee because you are perceived as passive instead of thoughtful.

The source of most of our problems of the past twenty-five years and certainly of the grave problems that beset our country today, lies in this schism between those who believed in the traditional school of national planning and overt diplomacy and those who believed in a passive role of reaction to a general enemy (Communism).

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation

My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had to fart, he'd do it in the library. He did not care. He was like, 'I don't know these people. I'm uncomfortable, and I need to let it go.'

The sea, the sea…Man alone, Passive, unawareIn his elemental sadness.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

In our culture, our relationship to relationships tends to be passive. We get what we get, and then we react to it.

Humility is a passive acceptance of the process of life; love is an active participation in that process.

I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos».

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

This isn't about love and hate, Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child to sleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor.

She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you.

The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.

Index funds generally buy and hold all the securities within a particular index in a market cap—weighted fashion. Thus while an S&P 500 Index fund would own all five hundred stocks that comprise the index, it would not own an equal amount of each of the five hundred stocks. The largest holding might, for example, be 5 percent of the entire portfolio. There

The call to faith and the act of salvation comes entirely from God; faith commitment is both active and passive. Our part is the surrender of the will, the open acceptance of what God has done. It is not a "work" (Eph 2:9), for it is the power of God alone that makes it possible.

And yet the passive scheme he had his team play frustrated opponents so much, the Philadelphia Flyers actually just held the puck and stopped skating in a 2011 game, which the Wall Street Journal called "the worst hockey game ever.