#passive

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

#bunch #down #get #goes #into

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better by how they move. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#apathy #inspiration #mediocrity #passiveness #success

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

#active #adventure #expects #experience #goes

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#i #imagination #passive #person #stretch

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#fatal #goal #make #our #passive

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#dislike #envy #hate #hatred #passive

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

— Edith Hamilton

#belief #faith #passive

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ↗

— James Humes

#even #leader #leaders #leadership #mind

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #destiny #feels #obey #passive