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  • Active Evil is better than Passive Good. -- William Blake
  • It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit. -- Ernest Holmes
  • Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. -- Edith Hamilton
  • I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. -- Brian Tracy
  • We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. -- Les Brown
  • I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation. -- Ravi Ravindra
  • A mind too active is no mind at all. -- Theodore Roethke
  • Active management is little more than a gigantic con game. -- Ronald Ross
  • Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy. -- Arthur Guiterman
  • Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. -- Carl Jung
  • We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock. -- Steve Brown
  • Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. -- Warren Buffett
  • Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles. -- Dennis Kucinich
  • In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. -- Bridget Riley
  • Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue. -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. -- James F. Cooper
  • Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. -- Mary Daly
  • The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces. -- Christopher Bond
  • Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. -- Eugene Fama
  • It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world. -- Cameron Diaz
  • That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business. -- Warren Zevon
  • We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. -- Kary Mullis
  • Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline. -- Edward Gibbon
  • Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment. -- Barry Ritholtz
  • I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. -- John F. Kennedy
  • And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
  • My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. -- Josef Albers
  • I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. -- Andrew Wyeth
  • The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.' -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate. -- Annie Besant
  • Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example. -- Dan Buettner
  • I try to do something active everyday. Liking what you're doing makes working out enjoyable. -- Christine Lakin
  • Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. -- Alan Rickman
  • We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. -- Mitchell Baker
  • The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain. -- Michael Gurian
  • I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst. -- Dick Cheney
  • Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
  • Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. -- Richard Pound
  • I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life. -- Olivier Theyskens
  • We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry
  • It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. -- Adam Smith
  • The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • It's about having an active lifestyle, staying healthy, and making the right decisions. Life is about balance. Not everybody wants to run a marathon, but we could all start working out and being active, whether you walk to work or take an extra flight of stairs. -- Apolo Ohno
  • Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference. -- Shari Arison
  • While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. -- Michael Leunig
  • I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' -- Al Seckel
  • Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object. -- Ram Dass
  • For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder? -- Thomas R. Insel
  • I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject. -- Sam Raimi
  • One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about. -- Madeleine Albright
  • I love being active. -- Dolly Parton
  • Courage is active faith. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I'm actually very active. -- RJ Mitte
  • Love is an active word. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Love is an active action. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I'm always active throughout the year. -- Devon Windsor
  • Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • I've always been extremely physically active. -- Danai Gurira
  • No one has developed active tuberculosis. -- Michael York
  • Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • To love is an active verb. -- Ogden Nash
  • Faith is an active creative force. -- J. H. Oldham
  • I've always had an active imagination. -- Rickie Lee Jones
  • I've been very active in Missouri. -- Jim Talent
  • I will remain active in judo. -- Ryoko Tani
  • I've always been a very active person. -- Andie MacDowell
  • All genuine learning is active, not passive. -- Mortimer Adler
  • Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active! -- John Assaraf
  • Reason is the most active human faculty. -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • I haven't been very active in politics. -- Clint Eastwood
  • Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active. -- Anita Roddick
  • Be an active reader; not a passive reader. -- Angelo Quiamco
  • Index investing outperforms active management year after year. -- Jim Rogers
  • I liked being active. I liked being creative. -- Sarah Hughes
  • Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. -- Ouida
  • Ability is active power, or power to perform. -- Noah Webster
  • An active and creative reader is a re-reader. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • You will boost your productivity with active exercise. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Becoming active is the key remedy for depression. -- Pat Robertson
  • I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. -- Lauren Bacall
  • Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The active part of man consists of powerful instincts. -- Francis William Newman
  • Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity. -- Guy Kawasaki
  • When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active. -- Gunilla Brodde Norris
  • Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry. -- Rick Perry
  • Just in general, staying healthy and active is important. -- Lindsey Vonn
  • I like to stay fit by being generally active. -- Diane Kruger
  • Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. -- Claude Bernard
  • I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. -- Brian Eno
  • I have a great life and I'm super active. -- A. J. Langer
  • Age is only a number. Keep an active life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • To be active is the primary vocation of man. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • I always stay active, even if Im on vacation. -- Erin Heatherton
  • I always stay active, even if I'm on vacation. -- Erin Heatherton
  • I enjoy being active; it's part of my lifestyle. -- Sasha Roiz
  • An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. -- George S. Patton
  • You are not an active creator of the film. -- Sydney Pollack
  • I've played sports and been active my whole life. -- Warren Christie
  • Let us move forward with strong and active faith. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active. -- Andrzej Wajda
  • Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world. -- Bill Cosby
  • The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life. -- Aristotle
  • The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend. -- Aesop
  • Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
  • I was very active in the peace movement, still am. -- Margot Kidder
  • Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure. -- Po Bronson
  • I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication. -- Lily King
  • [Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program. -- Sandy Berger
  • We are all of us more or less active physiognomists. -- Henry David Thoreau
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