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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
John Edgar Wideman
Faith
Great
Me
History
Struggle
People
Black
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Dream
Abide
Some
Spirit
Seems
More
Great Spirit
Over
Armed
Beyond
Know
Sort
Understand
Answers
Issue
Passive
Been
Years
American
American Dream
American History
Even
Why
Violence
There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can't get away with passive play.
John Isner
Defense
Too
Guys
Since
Most
Well
Passive
Lot
Times
Get
Going
Just
Away
Play
The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.
Jules Verne
Death
Courage
Fear
Degree
No Fear
Extraordinary
Approach
Possesses
Indifference
Only
Sees
Highest
He
Highest Degree
Does
Condemned
Passive
His
Truly
Falter
Officer
Hands
Ill
Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.
Julian Treasure
Time
World
Listening
Passive
Creating
Activity
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.
Katherine Helmond
Life
Age
Women
Think
Back
Admirable
Brought
Tendency
Major
Come
Major Role
Advisable
Accepting
Passive
Been
Revert
Up
Role
Forward
Play
Recede
Pull
The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.
Kurt Sutter
Character
Action
Out
Characters
Wrapped
Shakespeare
Angst
He
Taking
Most
Hamlet
Passive
Lot
Very
Where
Interesting
Interesting Character
Richard
Trap
I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
Lance Henriksen
Love
Good
Too
Bad
Bad Guys
Guy
Guys
Good Thing
Like
Passive
Going
Thing
Good Guy
Good Guys
Playing
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Time
Experience
Writing
World
Money
Better
Word
Thought
Better World
Down
Philanthropist
Philanthropy
Once
About
Something
Rather
Gives
Networks
Checks
How
Passive
Up
Sitting
Any
Anyone
Anything
Create
Skills
View
Used
Conjure
Who
Amount
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
Margot Lee Shetterly
History
Binary
Black
Long
Too
Recipients
Citizens
Status
Scarcity
Superheroes
Long History
Exceptional
Mythic
Forces
Because
Renowned
Imposed
Passive
Condition
Just
Just Because
Either
Acquire
Who
Deeds
Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.
Marshall Goldsmith
Best
You
Challenges
Yourself
Goals
Mind
Action
Active
State
Latter
Determine
Clear
Between
Do Your Best
Employee
Alternative
Course
Passive
Huge
Questions
Huge Difference
Trying
Did
Difference
Former
Your
Describe
Defend
Set
Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
Mary Steenburgen
Work
You
Culture
People
Wonderful
Sometimes
Looking
Imagination
Other
Our
Bit
TV
About
Something
Because
Passive
Which
Loves
Little
Movies
Little Bit
Watching
I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.
Maryanne Wolf
Life
Thoughts
Knowledge
Entertainment
Joy
Digital
Will
Own
Rich
Doubt
Thinking
Our
No Doubt
Given
Beyond
Concern
Learn
Passive
Provide
Effort
Going
Children
Information
Third
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Mayim Bialik
Parenting
Style
Attachment
Passive
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Strength
Think
Entails
Leaders
Passive
Incapable
Resistance
I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?
Michel Temer
Corruption
Value
Proof
Something
Having
Without
Concrete
Passive
Been
Where
Anything
Received
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
Parker Palmer
Political
Control
Analysis
Tool
Academic
Rendering
Make
Passes
Passive
Debates
Ironically
May
Often
Realism
Social
Us
Functions
Lively
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
Paul Mooney
About
Naive
Passionate
Passive
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
Rupert Sheldrake
Science
Writing
Active
About
Voice
Simplest
Cheapest
Institutional
Within
Passive
Reforms
Switch
I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always passive; you're not making that many choices, so when something allows you to open up a bit, you want to explore your newfound freedom.
Shu Qi
Freedom
You
Bit
Characters
Something
More
Open
Make
Accessible
Always
Making
Audiences
Real
Passive
Up
Want
Movies
Choices
Explore
Your
Many
Actor
Play
Need
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.
Steven Pinker
Parents
Group
Peer
Peer Group
Has-Been
Parental
Shaped
Idea
Development
Massively
Greater
Passive
Been
Overstated
Than
Child
Achievements
Children
Far
Aspiration
My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!
Tara Stiles
Food
Home
Mom
Together
Gardening
Solar
Parents
Build
Duty
Design
Lunch
Our
Kid
Out
Would
Peppers
Liked
Around
Fresh
Fresh Food
How
Hippies
Passive
Green
Heat
Them
Figured
Dad
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
Taylor Wilson
Safety
Design
Everybody
Out
Had
Knew
Safe
Passive
After
Nuclear
Set
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.
Thom Mayne
Service
Good
You
People
Architecture
Weak
Good Thing
Deliver
Look
Passive
Very
Authenticity
Get
Blue
Any
Represents
Where
Want
Door
Autonomy
Profession
Fought
Thing
Resistance
Violently
Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.
Thundercat
Prayer
Man
Big
Admit
He
Takes
Pray
Passive
Prays
I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.
Tom Berenger
Frustration
Remember
Incredible
State
About
Someone
Angle
He
Part
Written
Know
Also
How
Go
Passive
Who
Preparing
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
Tullian Tchividjian
God
Good
Righteousness
Active
Aim
Our
Neighbor
Tells
Horizontal
Direction
Good Works
Does
Passive
Vertical
Us
Works
Need
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