Passive Quotations

Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

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

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

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

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.

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

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

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

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

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

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.

The post-impact sediments record the recovery of the continental-shelf target area from devastating impact mega-tsunamis to the passive continental shelf and coastal plain that continues today. Comparison of the section in Virginia with more complete sections sampled in New Jersey and Delaware will yield new insight into global sea-level changes and the distribution of water-bearing units in the coastal plain.

We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.

We believe that it is unlikely that Blackstone would make such a large investment intending to be a purely passive investor. This is likely to give rise to general market expectations that further steps will be taken to enhance shareholder value.

We got very passive offensively, so we asked them to get more aggressive. Danielle got aggressive in the low post and Jill (Gannon) was great with those shuffle cuts. These kids are starting to peak.

With no debate in Congress or directive from the White House, the Pentagon has narrowly defined its role as 'homeland defense' against an enemy attack from outside the United States, limiting its role in disaster response to a last-resort backfill for civil authorities. Not surprisingly, that philosophy dictates a very passive posture.

We're going to change our philosophy on defense. We were a little passive last year. We have some kids who can play man coverage, so we might be able to come after teams a little more. We don't want to be sitting ducks like we were last year.

We want him to want the ball. He's going to have to demand it. ... The worst thing he can do is be passive this time of year.

We were too passive offensively today until the ninth, when we put up some runs. I was glad to see us come back late. It ended just short of where we needed it to.

We were too passive in the first half but we played a lot better in the second. We're not yet where we want to be but we won over very good opponents and I'm satisfied with that.

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

The onus is increasingly on the news consumer to seek out what they should be interested in, rather than being passive and saying 'I'll watch CNN and this will tell me what I need to know'.

The only time when we were passive was when they were pressing us early on. We didn't look to attack as much as we wanted to.

We hug them for a few minutes, put them in the car seat and what do we do? Turn on the radio. So the youngster is listening to passive experiences instead of interactive.

We are all about safety and mobility. Our role in the city's comprehensive planning process is pretty passive at the moment. We certain applaud any efforts to improve mobility on state infrastructure.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

Since carriage in the nose is the first step in causing disease, the increased rate of carriage suggests more frequent occurrence of the disease. Indeed, active and passive smoking are associated with increased rate of respiratory infectious diseases.

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.

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

People want a passive park. Don't take out green space of park' - that's what we've been hearing.

I didn't like the feel of the game. We were a little passive on offense and we looked lost. We needed to get organized and I liked the way they came back.

I am a passive investor. I am not now nor have I been involved in buying and selling properties, negotiating leases or making management decisions.

Basically, the consumer will hang in there. Unless there's some kind of a major problem, the consumer tends to be more passive and will continue to spend if credit is available.

Chris has been saying that we can't be too passive and worry about making mistakes. We have to go after them.

If in the past, in terms of environmental protection, we were very passive ... now there has been a U-turn.

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

He was a very poor central bank chairman. He was passive in the face of what will go down as a very destructive bubble.

He's a great player and an interesting guy. He's not like a lot of guys, out there screaming and yelling. He's passive and quiet, one of the most humble guys you'll meet. He never loses his cool and always gives us a fighting chance.

How you like to style your fencing is really up to your temperament. Some people are aggressive and tend to move around a lot; some people are very passive and let their opponents make the first move. No two people fence entirely alike. It's one of the things that makes it so interesting.

I think in time they will probably make an offer (for Western Areas). I can't see them taking a passive stake in the company like that.

It builds on the boiling water reactor and adds what are generally called passive safety features. It simplifies the overall operation of the plant to some degree.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

I think the biggest thing we have got to do is just continue to attack the basket. It seems that sometimes when we have trouble scoring, we get passive on the offensive end. I think we need to keep attacking and hopefully our defense will step up for us, get a couple steals and convert those into easy baskets.

I thought we did a good job on him. It seemed like he got passive in the fourth, which was to our advantage. But then he hit the big shot.

I thought they turned up the pressure defensively in the second half, and we were too passive with the ball. But that's what you get when you are as young as we are.

It has always been Cramer's strategy to place inventory at the core of the OSS, as opposed to providing a passive database of record. The power of inventory at the core means that we can use the inventory to drive the systematic integration of wider OSS functionality within one, converged platform.

It is kind of difficult to communicate complex emotion in a car jealousy, passive aggression the puppeteers made it look effortless but it is a complex task to figure out.

It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

I represent a district with multiple military bases that have deployed thousands of troops. As I've watched these men and women wave good-bye to their loved ones, I am reminded of the deep love they have for the freedom of this nation and their desire to fight for the freedom of those who are oppressed overseas. Watching France's self -serving politics of passive aggression in this effort has discouraged me more than I can say.

Our goal now is to get the area open. Later on we want to add a pet playground for agility, dexterity and active and passive play.

Our press was passive early on. They were splitting us with the dribble real easy.

People must ask for it. In condos it is passive because you're stuck with a reserve unless you opt out.

Some people are probably already counting us out, maybe not even picked us to make the playoffs next year, who knows. I think we need to tweak a few things here and there. The thing that won us a Cup two years ago was just how aggressive we played. I think at times this year we were just passive in our play.

My mom, she's the general, ... She runs the team. She has always been my inspiration. She's a very, very strong woman. She's passive and laid back and calm, but at the same time she can get in your grill, on your case. I believe that every good parent evolves, that a parent keeps growing until it's time for their kids to be on their own. That's the way she was.

It does not appear but that mankind, in general, have a disposition to be as submissive and passive and tame under government as they ought to be.

We've tended to be passive and reactive when it comes to recruiting companies. We've got to start being active and make ourselves stand out.

That was a game with two very different halves. We were too passive before the break but we ran hard in the second half. I'm very happy with those three points.

We have to take leadership of this file. If we're simply passive about it, just sit back and surround ourselves with the wealth and let other Canadians chew this over and decide what to do, we're going to lose control of the issue.

Today's tracking technologies can generate significant cost savings derived from more accurate data collection. This includes the passive collection of data concurrent with the seamless flow of patient information throughout the hospital experience. The goal when implementing any of these systems should include automatic information collection to allow for improving quality of care, improving productivity, reducing redundancy in processes, decreasing errors, reducing overall operating costs, while increasing rapid availability of essential information, all without placing additional demands on the caregiver.

We never found our way into the game. We were far too passive and never showed the aggression we would have needed.

We need to stop thinking of the environment as a passive element. It is a fundamental part of community-based decision making. Unfortunately, the poor often lack legal rights to ecosystems and are excluded from decisions about ecosystem management. Without addressing these failures through changes in governance, there is little chance of using the economic potential of ecosystems to reduce rural poverty.

We got too passive at the end of the first half. I said before the game, the team that was more aggressive would win...We just mentally zoned out and didn't execute the way we should have.

We came out too passive on defense, that's how we dug a hole. But I was pleased with the guys' efforts down the stretch.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying ''It got lost,'' and say, ''I lost it.''

We're not going to continue to sit back and watch them under perform, ... We're going to take action, terminate those accounts and bring the money back to the passive index fund until we find somebody who is capable enough to manage the monies for us.

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

When the promotion of democracy is associated with the US or Mr. Bush, European support plummets. Europeans want to be active participants in furthering the cause of liberty but they want to do it on their terms and not as passive followers of US policy.

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

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

This is passive-aggression in action.

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

We learned an important lesson about coming out too passive the first time we played Davis. The second time was different and we need that same energy.

We've worked on being aggressive in every phase of the game. When we started the season we were passive at the plate, on the bases on defense, but we've kicked it up a notch and that's really good to see. It thought we played a very good game tonight.

We're trying to change the culture here. They got into a passive defense that believed that offense would win it all and the defense got soft. We want to be a hard-hitting defense. What I want is for people to know this defense is tough. If we can come out of this camp with that attitude, I believe we'll be all right.

We think we have a spectacular package of passive and active open spaces. We think we've got a really good proposal, which is the result of our hard work and the work of your staff.

With a passive tag, the transmissions are limited as the only signal comes from a transmitter/receiver and tend to be spasmodic.

There are several applications for our products beyond FTTH. For example, one device under development is intended to double the number of users that can share Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON). With today's preferred Telco video delivery system, RF overlay, our solution enables a 64-way split to accommodate users connected to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) port at the serving central office, whereas today only 32 users can share such a port. Our future plan also includes products to alleviate the cable TV return path bottleneck, and RF power amplifiers for emerging wireless applications where signal clarity and power efficiency are critical in reducing capital and operating costs.

Unfortunately, I didn't take my chances in the first two sets. In the first set I was maybe a little too passive and in the second I played more aggressively and took more risks.

We're in a bad-news cycle now where bad news builds on itself. Bush's press has gone from bad to worse, from critical to adversarial. The media opposition has gone from passive to active.

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

This team works better than other teams we've had in the past as far as improving themselves on the court, and the attitude is always positive. But this team has its own personality, and unfortunately, it's a passive one.