Quotes by Passive 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. Nassim Nicholas Taleb passiveeventspeople Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. Nawal El Saadawi cornerspassivemen Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that. Nuala O'Faolain passiveactivehumans To be silent is to be passive. Octavia Spencer passivesilent I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. Paul Mooney naivepassivepassionate Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation. Ravi Ravindra agitationpassiveneeded The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. Robert Greene ironicpassiveattitude You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive. Rush Limbaugh elevatorspassive To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. Simone de Beauvoir passivedifferentacceptance The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that. Thomston passivelabelswould-be A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. Tom Peters passiveapproachgrowth I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. Virginia Woolf acquiescenceintensitypassive Active Evil is better than Passive Good. William Blake passivethought-provokingevil To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. William Glasser over-itpassivevictim I'm a very passive investor. Kirk Kerkorian investorverypassive Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. Claude Bernard observationpassiveactivescience«123
