Active Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 09, 2014

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• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  Edith Hamilton

  Inspirational, Faith, Belief

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• The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

  Leslie Caron

  Important, Important Things

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• The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

  Amartya Sen

  College, Community, Students

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• 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

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

  Francis William Newman

  Powerful, Men, Instinct

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• Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

  William Blake

  Evil, Thought Provoking, Passive

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.127, Pearson Education

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• Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

  Mary Daly

  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Sisterhood, Want, Empowering Women

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.797, Best Books on

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• A mind too active is no mind at all.

  Theodore Roethke

  Intelligence, Intuition, Mind

  Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz (1966). “The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems”

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• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Artist, Men

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Boredom, Capable

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Baseball, Football

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• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Painting, Planes

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• 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

  Father, Imagination, World

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• To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

  Jean Piaget

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

  Charles Edison

  Party, Organization, Issues

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• You are not an active creator of the film.

  Sydney Pollack

  Film, Creator

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• I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

  Kiana Tom

  Sports, Stay Strong, Play

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• We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

  Mitchell Baker

  Thinking, People, Community

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

  Crystal Eastman

  Lying, Together, Lambs

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Party, Democrat, My Future

  "Farewell, Sarajevo". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

  Karen Duffy

  Eye, Feet, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

  Cory Doctorow

  Crooks, Calling, Want

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