Passivity Quotes
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Passivity Quotes & Sayings
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When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.
— Donald Miller
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.
— Julia Cameron
Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.
— Nora Roberts
Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.
— Tarryn Fisher
Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity.
— Shashi Tharoor
The majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.
— Camille Paglia
Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.
— Caroline Knapp
Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.
— Unica Zurn
Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.
— Doris Lessing
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.
— Alistair Begg
When you don't decide, life decides for you.
— Marty Rubin
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
— Wendell Berry
Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
— Dominique De Villepin
The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.
— Oswald Chambers
Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.
— Maureen Corrigan
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
— Howard Zinn
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
— W. H. Auden
Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.
— Jack Kornfield
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[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
— Jessica Valenti
Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.
— Darren Rowse
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.
— Sengcan
It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting.
— Paula Hawkins
Television is a passivity.
— John Green
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
— Bill Moyers
The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the 'best' and only way to do so isthrough action. — Oli Anderson
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity.
— Watchman Nee
Activity = passivity.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
Idealism + Inaction = Depression
— Oli Anderson
Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
— Tom Robbins
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
— Deepak Chopra
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
The passivity of the green girl masquerades as politeness
— Kate Zambreno
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
— Gaston Bachelard
Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
— Julian Barnes
It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.
— Pere La Combe
Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.
— Erich Fromm
As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.
— Thomas Merton
Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.
— Melissa Cady
A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.
— Richard Hofstadter
This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment.
— Peter Matthiessen
He did not confuse compassion with passivity.
— Sylvia Boorstein
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
— Virginia Woolf
Don't stare out the window; run through the fields.
— Marty Rubin
Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
— Claire Denis
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
— Angela Carter
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw.
— Aspen Matis
It is passivity that dulls feeling.
— Susan Sontag
