Quotes of: Passively Keyword

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

Ryan Lilly

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Karl Liebknecht

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

L. Lionel Kendrick

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

Rupert Sheldrake

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Noam Chomsky

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Daisaku Ikeda

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

Francis Spufford

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Helen Garner

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Martin Freeman

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Tullian Tchividjian

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

Voice of Reason

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

Orrin Woodward

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

R. David Lankes

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

John Maeda

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Paul Mooney

Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

Taylor Wilson

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

William Bernbach

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

James Humes

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

Corneliu E Giurgea

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Christopher Isherwood