Quotes About Passive

You never want to be in a defensive mode or have a defensive mindset. You always want to know that you're in control as the pitcher, you make him get hits, you're never passive, always aggressive. If I get beat, I want it to be because I got rocked, got hit hard, never because I walked a couple of guys and before you know it.

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.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

It was like a storybook: her life was being written for her. She did not have to write it, only just to read it. The pages were being turned for her, too

In and through the personal rediscovery of the great, we find that we need not be the passive victims of what we deterministically call 'circumstances'...but that by linking ourselves...with the great we can become freer- freer to be ourselves, to be what we most want and value.

The feelings associated with different activities suggest that another way to improve experience is to switch time from passive leisure, such as TV watching, to more active forms of leisure, including socializing and exercise.

Thank you," I said to my lap, unable to stop the knee-jerk reaction to Mom's invective. She taught me this. How to be kind, passive. He used that kindness to hurt me, to shame me into silence.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

Replicators may be classified in two ways. They may be 'active' or 'passive', and, cutting across this classification, they may be 'germ-line' or 'dead-end' replicators.

A passive replicator is a replicator whose nature has no influence over its probability of being copied.

To the capitalist, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury.

not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said to exist. ("Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.")

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.