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Passively sitting around and waiting for things to happen only leaves things up to chance, which you have no control over. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil." -- Viggo Mortensen
Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being. -- Deepak Chopra
I still like to get carried away - but passively. -- Robert Plant
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
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. -- Bill Watterson
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set. -- Bruce Nash
To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well. -- Andy Taylor
What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like. -- Brian Posehn
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. -- Corazon Aquino
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. -- Charles Hodge
I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me. -- Tony Judt
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
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. -- James Weldon Johnson
If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. -- Noam Chomsky
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. -- Aldous Huxley
The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right. -- Andrew Luck
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. -- Will Self
No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others. -- Ellen Key
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. -- Bradley Whitford
Not actively surviving is passively dying. -- Ori Hofmekler
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. -- Virginia Woolf
The student is to read history actively not passively. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively. -- Joseph Barrell
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively. -- Anatoly Karpov
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice. -- Peter Kreeft
Conformity"?the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. -- Mark Twain
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
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. -- Matt Taibbi
I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong. -- Suzy Kassem
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy." -- Matt Taibbi
Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain. -- Corneliu E. Giurgea
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. -- Stanislav Grof
We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God. -- Jen Wilkin
ThereÂ?s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively. -- John C. Maxwell
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process -- Elif Shafak
To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning. -- Michael Shermer
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life. -- Wendell Berry
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it). -- George E. P. Box
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. -- Bebe Moore Campbell
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. -- David Cameron
Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development. -- Zhou Shengxian
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. -- Deborah
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. -- Deborah Day
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge. -- Edward Kennedy
A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares. -- Marvin J. Ashton
My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time. -- Homer
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend... -- Charlotte Mason
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough. -- Theodore Dreiser
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively. -- Ellen Lupton
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation. -- George Carlin
To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively. -- Nathaniel Branden
Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement. -- William Forsyth Sharpe
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement. -- George Eliot
I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it. -- Hugh Laurie
Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world. -- Richard Wiseman
Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking what are the consequences that follow from them." -- L. Susan Stebbing
The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. -- Leo Tolstoy
The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas. -- Thomas Malthus
I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. -- Michael Gerber
Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate. -- Rolf Potts
When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism. -- Kim Hyesoon

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