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“I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.”

Want Mind Littles Wish Conditions Valuable Active Lazy Leisure Passive Idleness Wish You

Book:Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

Source: Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

“It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the true, or the rational in complete abstraction from the way in which these items figure in the motivationally active parts of the human psyche, and particularly in abstraction from the way in which they impinge, even if indirectly, on human action.”

Ifs Way Believe Humans Would Be Action Understanding Mistake Figures Active Rational Abstraction Items Discussing Human Actions Human Psyche

Book:Philosophy and Real Politics

Source: Philosophy and Real Politics

“you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.”

Made Running Imagination Pay Mines Mountain Majors Active Range Transforming Mills Adept Mountain Ranges

Book:Stars Come Out Within

Source: Stars Come Out Within

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don't kid yourself that they are.”

Ifs Men Enough Feelings Kids Romance Lying Passion Love Is Love You Behavior Active Our Relationship Verbs Nouns Lying Men Behaving Badly

Author:Susan Forward

“I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.”

People Thinking Way Important Sides Study Constitution Democrat Active Both Sides

Author:Eva Longoria

“I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I'm addicted to sugar - licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!”

Hard Lying Healthy Active Diets Sugar Candy Unhealthy Jelly Muffins

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.”

Needs Stills Parent Poor Habit Eating Active Need You I Need You Eating Habits

Author:Bob Harper

“I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.”

Kids Form Imagination Mines Active Imaginary Demonic Imaginary Friend

Author:Claire Danes

“I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.”

Running Interest Track Work Out Active Ran Boxing Wrestler Always Running

Author:T. J. Thyne

“I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

“Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.”

Men Soul Ends Self Reason Whole Action Self Love Balance Spring Draws Plant Active Spots Compare Flames Destroying Peculiar Void Nutrition Meteors

Book:Essay on Man and Other Poems

Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems

“Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.”

Want Made Shows Felt Sound Imagination Wall Internet Albums Active Video Engaged Tickets Posters Sensory Overload

Author:Q-Tip

“I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.”

Love Is Active Athletic

Author:Hill Harper

“A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.”

Ifs Men Interest Failing Active Selfish Energetic General Public Public Interest

Author:Benjamin Butler

“Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.”

Knows Needs Teacher Teaching Fields Research Scientist Active Contact

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.”

People Kids Imagination Rooms Stage Fronts My Family Active Making Money Performing Living Room

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“If I am anorexic, Id be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.”

Ifs Has Beens Feet Active Hospitals Tall Inches Athletic Anorexics

Author:Anushka Sharma

“Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.”

“The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.”

May Used Numbers Poverty History Resources Horse Hunger Active Speed Spares Adequate Rapids Barbarians Roman Empire Cavalry

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.”

Running School Together Young Father Active Running Together

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).”

Soul Action Happiness Exercise Function Active Our Actions

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.”

Happiness Causes Virtue Exercise Activity Opposites Active Faculty Conformity

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.”

World Ideas Process Creativity Design Creation Accounts Impact Rewards Privilege Active Consumption Participation Bank Accounts Impact On The World Active Participation

Author:Tim Brown

“Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.”

People Enough Process Development India Mere Active Governance Good Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.”

Needs Mind Long Use Term Technology India Aim Clean Climate Climate Change Active Long Term Etc Requirements Governance Short Term Preparedness Good Governance Fallouts

Author:Narendra Modi

“Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.”

Process Growth India Democratic Response Population Active Access Partners Outcomes Empowering Governance Transparent Strengthening

Author:Narendra Modi

“Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision.”

Long Has Beens Term Vision Youth Development Skills Approach India Active Partners Long Term Broads Flexible Skills Development Gujarat

Author:Narendra Modi

“Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.”

Way Philosophy Spiritual Consciousness Teach Exercise Reflection Active New Ways Invitations New Way Of Life

Author:Pierre Hadot

“The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.”

Cities Century Car Produce Stress Active Toys 21st Century Viewers Speeding

Author:Chris Burden

“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.”

“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.”

Matter Use Form Cities Influence Objects Ordinary Areas Edges Active Borders Massive Territory Passive Perimeter

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.”

“I always stay active, even if Im on vacation.”

Ifs Active Vacation

Author:Erin Heatherton

“Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.”

World Humans Desire Imagination Effort Alive Ought Active Finished Human Life Utopia

Book:Political Ideals

Source: Political Ideals

“Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.”

Mean Different Sometimes Fighting Complexes Active

Author:Jo Walton

“When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.”

Firsts War Moving Peace Rooms Army Active Chairs

Author:Robert Lembke

“We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.”

Different Active Championship Nba Championships

Author:Steve Kerr

“We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?”

Ifs Thinking Children Would Be Kindness Teaching Military Findings Our Children Active Peaceful Department What If Resolution Devoted Finding Peace Peaceful Resolution

Author:Dave Matthews

“I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.”

Action Used Turns Information Example Insight Active Data Innate

Author:Michael Dell

“I don't believe in misconceptions in art and films. There are always so many different ways to relate to or understand a film. I love films that give a great amount of space to the audience to explore or be active with what the film is saying.”

Way Giving Believe Art Different Film Space Audience Amount Don't Believe Active Relate Different Ways Misconception Love Films

Author:Claudia Llosa

“I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.”

Children School Active Physically Active

Author:Richard Simmons

“My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.”

Light Age Wanted Young Imagination Childhood Ordinary Scared Active Closets My Imagination Young Age

Author:Stephen King

“There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.”

Force Powerful Steps Enemy Intelligent Active Saved Recognition

Book:Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way

Source: Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way

“If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.”

People Ifs Should Jobs Information Members Insight Active Get Better Connecting Linkedin

Author:Reid Hoffman

“In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.”

Position Active Debutantes

Author:Amy Carter

“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”

Years May Said Done Character Three Jesus Simple Practice Virtue Records Influence Mankind Highest Patterns Philosopher Active Strongest Three Years Incentives Moralist Active Life

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.”

Ifs Doe Happens Can Do Imagination Brain Seeing Involved Activity Perception Hearing Active Imagery Hallucinations Autonomous

Author:Oliver Sacks

“There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.”

Way Play Helping Problem Process Roles Solutions Active Perceive Engaged Learners

Book:Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

Source: Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World

“He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.”

Reason All Things Active Cheerful Tranquil

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion