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“Leadership is not for the Passive. It is for the Active!”

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Author:Benjamin Suulola

“I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular.”

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Book:Terminal Boredom: Stories

Source: Terminal Boredom: Stories

“Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.”

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Book:The Hidden Persuaders

Source: The Hidden Persuaders

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

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Author:Jimmy Rollins

“I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.”

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Author:Mike Bickle

“And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?”

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Author:Ray McGovern

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

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Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

Source: An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life

“A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just a receptacle. He reflects life: he allows life to reflect in him, to be reflected through him. He sings the song that existence wants to sing through him. He has no ideas of his own; he does not hinder.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness”

Mind Wise Divine Impress Passiveness

Book:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”

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Author:Eric Metaxas

“As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.”

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Author:Bebe Moore Campbell

“Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.”

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Book:Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

“The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.”