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• Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.

  Rick Owens

  Simple, Hair, Shoes

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• After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Mind, Tranquil

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• For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive

  Loulou de la Falaise

  Hard Work, Looks, Sometimes

  "60 Seconds: Loulou de la Falaise". Interview With Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. December 29, 2006.

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• Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Envy, Hatred, Needs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• ...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Attitude, People, Rude

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• Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Fate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.179, Yale University Press

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• Residual income is passive income that comes in every month whether you show up or not.  It’s when you no longer get paid on your personal efforts alone, but you get paid on the efforts of hundreds or even thousands of others and on the efforts of your money!  It’s one of the keys to financial freedom and time freedom.

  Steve Fisher

  Keys, Effort, Income

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• Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Should, Treats

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.181, NavPress

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• Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This short, powerful statement assured me that I have the freedom, in spite of and because of my birth, body, race, gender expectations, and economic resources, to define myself for myself and for others.

  Janet Mock

  Powerful, Race, Expectations

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• There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

  Janet Guthrie

  Demand, Littles, Driving

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• Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Music, Mean, Focus

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• Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving Up, Hero, People

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• In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

  Johannes Brahms

  Music, Rivers, Water

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• Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Lying, Hands

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.29, Discovery House

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• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Mental Health, Said

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

  Albert Mackey

  Two, Males, Female

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• Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced
  with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the
  expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with
  the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which,
  having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected
  with the rest of civilized nations.

  Moses Hess

  Expression, Years, Humanity

  Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press

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• I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

  Ben Casnocha

  Writing, Odds, Hearing

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• Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Responsibility, Play

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• My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.

  Candace Cameron

  Husband, Fall, Personality

  Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Davis (2015). “Dancing Through Life: Steps of Courage and Conviction”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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• We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Numbers, Atmosphere

  "Reading Prose: An Introduction to Critical Study". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 505), 1952.

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• Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.

  James E. Talmage

  Life, Believe, Acceptance

  James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.

  Rick Cusick

  Marijuana, Passive Resistance, Numbers

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• Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Flow, Entertainment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, Basic Books

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