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The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You. -- Tony Samara
Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback. -- Elon Musk
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride. -- Nicolas Cage
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant. -- Sidney Hook
If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it. -- Peter McWilliams
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. -- Elijah Wood
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate. -- Seth Godin
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. -- Shiv Khera
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' -- Warren Buffett
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. -- Augustus Hare
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' -- Stephen Colbert
I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community. -- Samuel Wilson
A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials. -- Virginia Postrel
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change. -- John Berger
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression. -- Martin Seligman
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door. -- Paul Muldoon
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. -- Richard Linklater
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable. -- Lauren Groff
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution. -- Daniel Dennett
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system. -- Nancy Pelosi
You don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve. -- Harvey Mackay
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively. -- Henry Cloud
Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government. -- Mike Turner
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. -- Alan Thicke
If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house. -- Taylor Swift
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. -- Suze Orman
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK. -- Noreena Hertz
Not actively surviving is passively dying. -- Ori Hofmekler
Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul. -- Katrina Kenison
He who is not actively kind is cruel! -- John Ruskin
As a father, we need to actively listen. -- Asa Don Brown
The student is to read history actively not passively. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space. -- Donald Shoup
The government should be actively enforcing the high road. -- Jared Bernstein
Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them. -- David Novak
The learner should be actively involved in the learning process. -- Malcolm Knowles
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks. -- Derrick Bell
I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put. -- Erik Erikson
Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. -- Nicolas Cage
I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport. -- Chris Carmack
Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment. -- Andy Hargreaves
The deeper one delves, the worse things look for actively managed funds. -- William J. Bernstein
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude. -- Ruth Benedict
Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve. -- Harvey Mackay
I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed. -- David Alan Grier
If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse. -- William Westney
If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it. -- Peter McWilliams
I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar. -- Jemaine Clement
It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself. -- Ken Jennings
We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics. -- George Pataki
Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in! -- Sheila Kitzinger
It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good. -- Sergey Brin
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice. -- Peter Kreeft
Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. -- Howard Berman
Change happens when people actively participate; lip service is what happens when people don't. -- Nancy Ruth
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action. -- Herschel Walker
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down. -- Russell Banks
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic, -- Benjamin Graham
So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity. -- Mark Steyn
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. -- David Eagleman
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
I delivered my son. There were other people with me, but I was actively involved. -- Michael Rady
You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways. -- Deepak Chopra
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work. -- Seth Godin
I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today. -- Allyson Robinson
AAB actively campaigns to reduce aggression and counter bullying by creating peaceful campaigns such as Cyberkind. -- Louise Burfitt-Dons
Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome. -- Andrew Scott
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. -- Susan Sontag
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction? -- William S. Lind
Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other. -- Robert Barron
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast. -- Arnold Bennett
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. -- Gordon W. Allport
Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer. -- William Arthur Ward
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion. -- Hank Green
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me. -- Victoria Moran
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society. -- Jeb Bush
...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily. -- Michel Odent
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel. -- Richard Branson
The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric. -- Greg Behrendt
Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track. -- Jane Kaczmarek
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively. -- Angela Davis
A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do. -- Rupert Everett
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. -- Alan Paton
Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing. -- Ice T
I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province. -- Susan Sontag
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). -- Dale Jamieson
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. -- Dean Acheson
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. -- Westbrook Pegler
I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it. -- Juice Newton
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality. -- Rob Lowe
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. -- Kim Young-sam
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. -- Bill Murray
What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access. -- Ai Weiwei
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. -- Ben Hecht
We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance. -- Dalai Lama
It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable. -- Emma Thompson
I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field. -- Brian Tracy
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction. -- Amishi Jha
You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love. -- Michael Adam Hamilton
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. -- Ben Hecht
ThereÂ?s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively. -- John C. Maxwell
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things. -- Francis Chan
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat. -- Tahir Shah
I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled. -- Elizabeth Banks
Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower. -- Lilia Shevtsova
I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING. -- Brenda Strong
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. -- Ruth Benedict
The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent. -- Will Wright
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. -- Eric Maisel
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting. -- Cassandra Wilson

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