#passive

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When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!


Adam S. McHugh


#conflict #introverts #passive-aggressive #anger

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.


Daisaku Ikeda


#forces #historical #history #merely #nor

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.


William Blake


#better #evil #good #passive #than

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.


Arthur Goldberg


#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion

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


#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

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


#beliefs #come #creator #doing #down

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.


Chauncey Wright


#agree #agreed #character #control #evidence

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.


Ben Bernanke


#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.


William Glasser


#depressed #happened #neurotic #over #over it