Passive – Quotes

With no notice to

With no notice to the American people…this country entered the war…Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. Garet Garrett

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. Eve Ensler

When I was young

When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater – something very delicate. Evangeline Lilly

Let no one think

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs. Euripides

Of course, to avoid

Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don’t be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question–something too difficult to answer quickly–e.g., ‘What’s Congress up to?’ or ‘You ever learn any cool … Read more

Humanity has always conquered

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

The distribution of the

The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution… For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal. Eugene Fama

Thinking gets you nowhere.

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can’t think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity. Etty Hillesum

Organisation, far from creating

Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders. Errico Malatesta

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a standing in, not a falling for. In the most general way, the … Read more