Active Quotes

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was trying to make the voices more active, more energetic.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

Reason is the most active human faculty.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

To love is an active verb.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

I have always been an active part of my community.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy.

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

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

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.

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.

Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.