I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
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.
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear. . .
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
But. . . the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.
Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.