Quotes About Passive

When we trade the effort of doubt and debate for the ease of blind faith, we become gullible and exposed, passive and irresponsible observers of our own lives. Worse still, we leave ourselves wide open to those who profit by influencing our behavior, our thinking, and our choices. At that moment, our agency in our own lives is in jeopardy.

It's people like you who change history. People like me--we just let things happen to us.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, or will, given time enough.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

violência passiva que alimenta a fornalha da violência física.

Prefer the active voice unless there's a good reason for using the passive

Active and Passive Perfection are the Taoist equivalent of the sufi terms Majesty and Beauty.

the gratitude vibration is more powerful and has a greater influence [than love]. Love tends to be a more active energy, the act of giving oneself unconditionally. By contrast, gratitude is a more passive energy, a feeling that results from having been given something--knowing that you have been given the gift of life and reaching out to receive it joyously with both hands.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Waiting on God is hard when you are dispirited by illness. But part of waiting on God, learning to be passive in a way creative for your inner life, is not a question of thinking about God, but of growing in stillness. It has to do with prayer, and with music or from the simple contemplation of the world about you.

I was about as political as a bath towel.

I was as political as a bath towel

The record seems to suggest that a society begins to rely heavily on leisure-and especially on passive leisure-only when it has become incapable of offering meaningful productive occupation to its members.

many leisure activities—especially those involving the passive consumption of mass media—are not designed to make us happy and strong. Their purpose is to make money for someone else.

The Sacred Feminine expressed is love, and this love is both active and passive, dynamic and receptive, stillness and movement, and spiritual and material.

To passively surrender to the evidence of the senses underestimates the capacities of the Inner Self.

The dynamic prevails over the static; the active over the passive. One who is a doer is magnetic and therefore infinitely more creative than any who merely hears. Be among the doers.

Watching movies today is a passive experience, and there is little demand on the viewer's imagination.

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....

The question of how to either play an active role in a Western tragedy entering its final act, or to lamentably perish as a passive victim of the universal mechanisation that is to be its general theme, is at the heart of the present volume by Oswald Spengler entitled Man and Technics, originally published in 1931.

Dr.Costa then offered important clues to differentiate the syndrome from polio. in tick paralysis there is no fever, the spinal fluod is normal, the knee jerk and other reflexes are lost early, the patient is passive and apathetic, and, of course, the child has had a recent tick bite, or an attached tick is found.

Sheep got even less to say than dogs do.

We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.