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“The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.”

Whole Eye Night Causes Sound Imagine Ears Train Profound Active Satisfied Noise Perceive Stations Passive Imaginative Frivolous

Author:Robert Bresson

“Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.”

Fun Example Active Driving Having Fun Bike

Author:Dan Buettner

“When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed”

Mind Mean Eye Next Imagination Active Transition Uncommon Active Minds

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.”

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Political Literature Missing Tradition Active Pointing American Tradition Apolitical

Author:Diane Wakoski

“What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.”

People Two Facts Hands Politics Groups Politician Election Majority Active Candidates Minorities Selected Small Groups Citizenry Two Hands

Author:Robert Ringer

“We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active, work project.”

Way Might Artist Projects Active Bites Exes

Book:The Denial of Death

Source: The Denial of Death

“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today”

Made Today Mother Winning Women Inspiring Millions Gone Alive Generations Thousand Capable Bounds Active Determined Empowering Grandmother Mother And Grandmother

Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage

“In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.”

Doe Might Deals Pay Attitude Active Appropriate Spouse Open Minded

Author:Warren Buffett

“If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.”

Ifs World Way Feels Home Fun Community Differences Active Best Way Empowering Making A Difference Rooted Funny Women Making A Difference In The World Home And Family

Author:Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.”

Wealth Pleasure Results Mere Active Outcomes Enjoyment Passive

Author:Robert Baden-Powell

“Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to the governance of God with him, and set afoot a conspiracy of freedom in truth among human beings. Having overcome death he remains among us. By relying on his word and presence we are enabled to reintegrate the little realm that makes up our life in the infinite rule of God. And that is the eternal kind of life. Caught up in his active rule, our deeds become an element in God’s eternal history. They are what God and we do together, making us part of his life and him a part of ours.”

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.”

Church Party Youth Members Program Active Relief Secular Nazi Superficial Emphasis Parallels Involvement Scouting Mia Nazi Party Hitler Youth Relief Society

Author:Fawn M. Brodie

“I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot).”

Ifs Men Feels Home Beautiful Millions Blame Active Manage Boots Ladders Home Life

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.”

“Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.”

Needed Active Passive Agitation Receptivity

Author:Ravi Ravindra

“It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.”

World Important Causes This World Active Making Changes

Author:Cameron Diaz

“When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.”

Body Active Posture Asana Lightness Parts Of The Body

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“I have a great life and I'm super active.”

Active

Author:A. J. Langer

“Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.”

Soul Memories Son Fit Words Active Your Soul Manifest Word Of God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.”

Process Affair Active Constructive

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self.”

“Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.”

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.”

Can Do Emotion Gone Information Television Pages Commitment Active Existentialism Existential Involvement Printed

Author:Bill Moyers

“What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.”

Mother Born Wise Creation Connections Active Recovery Inseparable Mother Nature

Book:Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

Source: Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

“Coming into contact with the Mother is coming into contact with a force of passionate and active compassion in every area and dimension of life, a force that longs to be invoked by us to help transform all the existing conditions of life on earth so that they can mirror ever more clearly and accurately her law, her justice, and her love.”

Helping Earth Law Mother Force Justice Compassion Conditions Areas Mirrors Passionate Active Contact Dimensions Mother Nature

Book:Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

Source: Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

“An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.”

Trying Self Philosophy Common Principles Doubt Prove Waste All Things Intelligent Active Common Sense Wasting Time Evident

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.”

Ifs Together Lying Dangerous Active Lions Lambs

Book:Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

“Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.”

Love Is Patient Active Faithful Courageous Sincere Prudent Manly Love Is Hard

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.”

Believe Form Brain Dog Percent Active Pet Owners Application Passive Verbs Dog Owner

Author:Stanley Coren

“The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.”

Thinking Mind Matter Inspiration Practice Meditation Active Pursuit Impression Factors Thinking Of Others

Book:Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.”

Views Behavior Moved Patient Investing Active Timing Market Timing

Author:Warren Buffett

“We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.”

Investing Active More Money Timing Snoring Market Timing

Author:Warren Buffett

“Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.”

Spirit Religion Spirituality Universe Mystery Garden Active Gardening Participation Active Participation

Author:Thomas Berry

“Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.”

Knows Way Facts Felt Serious Poet Scientist Died Plant Very Good Hearing Active Bitter Grants Morphology

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to learn about Aztec pottery, you take a course. But the relationship with God requires the active and passionate participation of you, yourself. You have to risk it. You have to abandon yourself to it. You have to leap into the fire. Nobody will do it for you; nobody can do it for you.”

Ifs Want God Courses Can Do Fire Risk Television Passionate Active Abandon Leap Participation Relationship With God Risk It Pottery Aztec

Author:Andrew Harvey

“The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.”

Ifs World Problem Hands Lines Wealth Attitude Destiny Struggle Overcoming Difficulty Workers Active Problem Solving Self Reliance Reliance Peasants Marxist

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.”

World Different Facts Pay Watches Taken Dancing Entertainment Active Celebration Passive Spectators Participants

Author:Rajneesh

“All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.”

Mind Use Process Memories Teacher Students Discovery Active Genuine Agents Passive

Book:Paideia Proposal

Source: Paideia Proposal

“...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.”

States Play Problem Government Roles Environment Exercise Standards Conservative Active Boundaries Locals Federal Government Our Environment

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

“Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.”

Simple Successful Approach Opposites Investment Investing Simplicity Average Active Managers Bonus Indexing

Author:Patrick Geddes

“Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.”

Ends Action Mistake Hero Circumstances Despair Victim Active Remembered Making Mistakes Apathy Cynicism Passive Antidote Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Bradley Whitford

“Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.”

Light Form Active Circles Rational Combat Locked Parallels Intervals Oval

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Lying Mistake Active Harm Making Mistakes Mediocrity Now And Then Stagnation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.”

War Social Support Struggle Position Source Capitalism Direct Active Oppressed Imperialism Against War Unequivocal

Author:Leon Trotsky

“The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.”

Ifs Writing Humans Might Lying Difficult Imagination Common Novel Active Vanity Novelists Programming Length Deceiving

Author:William Gibson

“I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.”

Want Looks Eye Death Active Passive

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.”

People Feels Important Courses Plans Empty Golf Active Relax Swimming Retiring Pool Golf Course First Lady Swimming Pool Empty Life

Author:Betty Ford

“And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.”

People Ifs Doe Loneliness Cost Solitude Quiet Active Peculiar Antisocial

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship

“I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.”

Century Capacity Active Involvement Active Life Precocious

Author:Rene Cassin

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