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• A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

  Pele

  Teamwork, Football, Games

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• We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Doors, Psychics, Understanding

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• When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

  Diablo Cody

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  "Running with Diablo". Interview with Matt Smith, www.citypages.com. December 26, 2007.

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• We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Adventure, College

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• Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Observation, Active

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• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

  Garet Garrett

  Country, Peace, War

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• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Bad Ass, Justice

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Dark, Grieving

  1851 Twice- Told Tales,'The Haunted Mind'.

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• I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

  Howard Zinn

  Teacher, Successful, Media

  "A People's History of the United States". Book by Howard Zinn, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1980.

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• To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

  Bernard Iddings Bell

  Love You, Love Is, Order

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• All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Interesting

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Effort, Mind, Body

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• A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

  Harold Laski

  Loyalty, Healthy, Complacent

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Violence, Know How

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• In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Dancing, Different

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• Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

  Ela Bhatt

  Ideas, Political, Violence

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• Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

  Frank Herbert

  Acceptance, Government, Names

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 297), 1977.

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• In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Moving, Car, Gone

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Strong, Acceptance, Reality

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• Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.

  Joe Tye

  Honesty, Verbs, Nouns

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• To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Letting Go, Mean, Self

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• I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important thing. I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful

  Kara Walker

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  Camille Paglia

  Thrill, Feminine, Submission

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.339, Yale University Press

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• In negotiating with rejected lovers or husbands, women must stop thinking they can make everyone happy. In many cases of harassment and stalking, it is clear that the woman never learned how to terminate the fantasy which requires resolution and decisiveness on their part. Wavering, dithering, or passive hysterical fear will only intensify or prolong pursuit.

  Camille Paglia

  Husband, Thinking, Wavering

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.47, Vintage

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