Active Quotes - Page 33

• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Heart

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• I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

  Lee Byung-hun

  Summer, Exercise, Golf

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

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• A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

  Randy Couture

  Shapes, Easy, Lifestyle

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• So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

  Peter Andre

  Orange, Hands, People

  "Peter Andre strips to talk Fake Bake but does this kind of man-tanning turn you on or off?". Interview with Gilly Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

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• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  Abbie Cornish

  Animal, Voice, Rights

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• God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  God, Christian, Faithful

  Anne Graham Lotz (2013). “Fixing My Eyes on Jesus: Daily Moments in His Word”, Zondervan

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• You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Contemplative Life, Perfect

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Men, Together

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.

  Ruth Graham

  Strong, Children, Kissing

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• If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Hands, Experience, Wish

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• Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perseverance, Waiting, Perseverence

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• All genuine learning is active, not passive.

  Mortimer Adler

  Leadership, Sports, Genuine

  Mortimer Adler (2000). “How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization”, p.198, Open Court

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• The White House released documents it claims validates the president's (National Guard) service ... When deciphered the documents showed that in a one-year period, 1972 and 1973, Bush received credit for nine days of active National Guard service. The traditional term of service then and now for the National Guard is one weekend a month and two full weeks a year, meaning that Bush's nine-day stint qualifies him only for the National Guard's National Guard. That's the National Guard's National Guard, an Army of None.

  Jon Stewart

  Army, Weekend, Years

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• The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.

  Thomas Paine

  Land, Lazy, Males

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.129

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• There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Thinking, Purpose

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• We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Iran, Revolution, Problem

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Work Out, Personality, Brain

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Running, Beach, Workout

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• I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.

  Rand Paul

  Technology, Drones, Liquor Stores

  "Drone warfare politics change in Washington". "All In with Chris Hayes", www.nbcnews.com. April 24, 2013.

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• The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Independent, Self

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• We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.

  Sterling W Sill

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Cities

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• A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

  John Winthrop

  Men, Tongue, Nimble

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• Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

  Marvin Olasky

  Tired, Organization, Effort

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