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We got a little passive in the fourth quarter with a 10-point lead. But as the quarter wore on we picked it up.

We gave away so many opportunities with the turnovers. They didn't score on them, but they took us out of scoring. I thought we played so passive in all three of the overtimes once we got the lead. We were trying to hold on to the lead instead of being aggressive.

We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.

We were passive on defense. We couldn't be physical when we needed to. Potential is a fancy word for having not done it.

We were passive in the first half, and they were aggressive. After they built their lead, we settled down and realized it is not as tough of a press if we take care of the ball.

We got passive in the last 15 minutes, and (Lake Norman) picked up the pace and finally broke down our defense.

We had passive turnovers where we were turning it over on the pass. If we play with more confidence and more aggressively on our passes and our drives, I think we would have fewer turnovers.

We went through a lot to get there. A 13-year-old really doesn't understand fear too much, and we were tutored in passive resistance.

I should've played more risky in that game but I was too passive and allowed her to dominate,

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

It was very important and we did talk about it. We knew it was important, but I didn't want to put excessive pressure on the kids so they were passive on offense.

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Sometimes you just have to tip your hat to the guy who was pitching against us. But I also wasn't happy with our early-game approach at the plate. I thought we were passive and I thought we were lethargic and we made it easy on him.

Television viewing has been, for the most part, a passive activity.

Defensively we're going to have a lot of size. It should be interesting to see - I think it's going to be a learning process - learn to play with each other, learn to play with the new rules, learn to play against other teams. There's all new teams everywhere, they haven't been passive and have been changing players left and right. For the first week it be interesting to see how we play against our traditional rivals because we're going to be playing them a lot.

Compared to some other tax issues, like passive loss rules and stuff like that, it's not all that complicated, but people involved in things like passive loss rules can usually afford to pay for some sophisticated help.

Any move trying to cover up the cause of the accident and any passive attitude toward the probe are deemed deception and a defiance of law.

As a team we were pretty passive Friday night against them in our zone, letting them create opportunity after opportunity. We tried to tighten up defensively and eliminate their plays as quickly as we could tonight.

As long as economic data meet and beat expectations, the dollar will continue to strengthen. The Fed has a good reason to be pro-active rather than passive. The ECB has good reason to be passive rather than pro-active.

You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control your own thoughts and feelings, you know? All you can do is make your choices of what you do with your life and what your actions are and sometimes when you do let things go and you're more passive or more active. And, you know, it's just interesting and it's important to keep on top of myself and be super honest with myself.

This is not a passive action and it disproportionately affects black voters.

The weather was as passive as we're going to see it here, ever. The golf course would yield if you played well. Jay Haas played beautifully and had an incredible round.

There's a significant amount of dollars that are invested in the passive S&P 500 index approach or exchange traded funds that mimic the S&P and because Dana's dropped, there will be additional pressure on the stock.

All of us at NHT are very excited about our new partners, ... The combined influences of dramatic market change and the increasing pallet of new technologies to improve audio products make it necessary for companies like ours to evolve beyond passive loudspeaker design. With the substantial resources Vinci brings to NHT, we are in a great position for growth.

According to my estimation based on a survey, nearly 600 million Chinese suffer from passive smoking, which occurs in 71 percent of Chinese households, 32.5 percent of public places and 25 percent of working places.

It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever. It's the same thing as a keycard.

I tried to be a bit more aggressive instead of being so passive and just trying to get a shot up and keeping the energy up. I was just trying to make things happen for my team. I was trying to make them guard me and if I had seen somebody open I would get them.

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

It's the third year that the team has been below what we expect. We can't disparage our opponents or be passive when we play. That's not Real Madrid's spirit. We can't let negativity or laziness take over.

It's critical for African-American seniors and people with disabilities to be aware of this opportunity. I want to help people realize they must not be passive about making a decision, and that they need to take action soon.

It will free up the Point area for more passive contemplation of history and the environment.

These passive investments abroad by Filipinos will come back once the country succeeds in carrying out meaningful governance reforms, and once we achieve political stability and sustained economic growth.

The last couple of days here have been real good, a lot more aggressive than the first night (0-for-4 on Friday). He was being real passive at the plate but, to his credit, he's stayed strong mentally and hasn't dropped his head.

Their guards were kind of passive and really wanted Tucker to take over the game.

I like belly dancing because it gives women the chance to spend time away from their hectic lives. It's a very passive but energizing way to focus on oneself and to really get in touch with who you are as a person. It's a fun and exciting exercise that merges the mind, body and spirit.

I'm trying to take a little bit more of a aggressive approach at the plate. I think before I was too passive. On the one hand, you want to let the ball get deep. You want to be relaxed. But at the same time, you can't take a passive approach at the plate. You want to be aggressive. You want to attack the baseball.

Incline played well the whole game. We were very passive attacking the zone defense. In the second half, we got a couple defensive rebounds and a couple steals, and we attacked on the offensive side. It got us going.

I'm looking forward to learning more about what other countries are doing with innovative passive safety systems. The second thing I see is the potential for collaborative research. And when you have people from so many countries in one room, you make new friends and learn about different cultures.

Individuals who are exposed to passive cigarette smoke on a daily basis have more atherosclerosis -- or hardening of the arteries, as measured by ultrasound -- than people who don't.

If you try to be passive against Jake, he'll pound you. You fall asleep against Greg and he'll fold you up. You get the best of both worlds with the two of them.

In the first half, we were a little passive on offense. In the second half, Hooper stepped up big, and I challenged her to take it to the goal, and she did that and got quite a few good looks.

If your vote is your voice for change, then your letter is your pleading for reform. We must unite as one, on one day, in a manifestation of passive resistance. Mail a letter to your president February 12, 2009 and request a change in the immigration system as it stands today and reform of the current immigration laws.

Clean it up. Immediately start calling the credit card companies. Get involved. Don't be passive with this.

Being a fan and watching sports is sometimes characterized as a passive and individualized thing, but in fact it's a lot more social than that. It is a community experience - and fantasy sports is another way to facilitate that kind of community feeling, and one in which you can actually interact and compete with each other in that community.

Being involved - even if only through passive ownership - in this steadfast city enhancement, which is relatively risk-free and without the awful baggage of other commercial activities' competitive pressures, is immensely interesting.

Before every break you try to get on a high and come back and play like you were before. We were a little too passive at first, but the coaches talked about it on the bench and we went at them more. It feels good to play well and win because then you feel better going to the break and come right back at it.

Before, people were passive about their care. Now they are more energized to take a greater interest.

Privacy is not for the passive.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

If his reaction to this testimony or this subject is apt to be as emotional as it just was, ... tell him, he should just remain as quiet and passive as possible.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I dont like passive good guys.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

You can't be a passive skater and expect to get to the finals, and have a chance at winning a medal. The passive skater does get lucky in our sport occasionally. But for the most part, you need the aggression in our sport. You need to want to win. You need to want to pass. You need to want to move up.

The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.

The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists are doing. For every dollar of activist money involved in a campaign, there is usually at least $10 of non-activist money involved.

The ultimate model that will emerge is going to be one that is a layered authentication approach. You will have risk-based authentication and forms of passive authentication, but, for certain segments of users and certain types of transactions that may be high-risk or high-value, there will be a need for strong credentials like one-time-password tokens.

The entire Imperial Landing should be left for passive recreation. To put development in historic Bonita is a contradiction of terms.

The Carmichaels game was back and forth the entire game and Jesse was kind of passive through most of it. But he went to the hole and hit a shot that gave us the lead and the guys got a lot of confidence from it.

The challenge for Check Point is to get beyond the perimeter. They went out to the endpoint. Now, they have to defend the core, and when you do that, you need to look at more passive monitoring solutions.

To be silent is to be passive.

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with fragmented views of society. But what it does to everyone, it does to women even more.

The market is somewhat volatile now, so we're passive about getting new stock.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

We must believe that ''emotion recollected in tranquillity'' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not ''recollected'' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

I see no evidence of active malice, but I see a continuation of passive indifference on the part of our government toward the least of these,

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

In the African-American community, there's a sense that the passive indifference that's shown towards the folks in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans or on the West Side of Chicago or in Harlem ... is as bad as active malice,

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.