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Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another. Cass Sunstein

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.

Gretchen Rubin

TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

Raymond Arroyo

I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.

Lauren Kate

I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

Bill Ackman

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

Tom Berenger

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Czeslaw Milosz

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

William Godwin

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

Danny Boyle

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.

Taylor Wilson

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Sylvia Plath

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

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Jim Caviezel

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Al Sharpton

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Chauncey Wright

When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.

Dan Gilbert

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Elie Wiesel

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

William Bernbach

People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I'm the furthest thing from passive that you'll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.

Jake Peavy

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

Robin Morgan

'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

Richard Corliss

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Claude Bernard

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Martin Freeman

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Tacitus

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Steven Pinker

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Ronald Reagan

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

Christopher Isherwood

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

Tom Peters

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.

Parker Palmer

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

Anton Yelchin

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Hamilton Jordan

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Arthur Adamov

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Karl Liebknecht

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

Francis Spufford