Passive Quotes - page 9

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in. (Irwin Redlener)
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. View quote
Jason Silva
I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of. View quote
Kiele Sanchez
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences. View quote
L. Lionel Kendrick
I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys. View quote
Lance Henriksen
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. View quote
Gero Miesenbock
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. View quote
Meshell Ndegeocello
To be silent is to be passive. View quote
Octavia Spencer
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. View quote
Paul Mooney
TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation. View quote
Raymond Arroyo
We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility. (Rebecca MacKinnon)
I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always passive; you're not making that many choices, so when something allows you to open up a bit, you want to explore your newfound freedom. View quote
Shu Qi
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. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive. View quote
Steven Strogatz
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun. View quote
Steven Van Zandt
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. View quote
Tullian Tchividjian
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward. View quote
William T. Vollmann
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. View quote
William Glasser
I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. View quote
John Lydon
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive. View quote
John Lydon
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. (Sonia Sotomayor)
We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active the governor must be more energetic than the governed. View quote
Marquis de Sade
The proper act of reading of a poem was not an act of passive submission but one of collaboration with its author. View quote
Vernon Scannell
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. View quote
Tom Peters