#passive

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. ↗

— George C. Marshall

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Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. ↗

— Merton Miller

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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. ↗

— Tom Peters

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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bears #black #could #does #effective

...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb. ↗

— Mignon Fogarty

#numbers #passive-voice #writing #humor

Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new ‘celebrity’ and celebrities gain access. Authors not only make money from royalties or book advances but from their keynotes, presentations and strategically branded product lines. This includes entrepreneurial ideas for you to extend yourself beyond just writing and prepares you to add speaking and consulting to your revenue stream. You have to begin to look outside book sales and towards the speaking market. There are radio, interviews, news, television, small channel television keynotes, lectures, seminars and workshops. These types of events have the possibility to be much more lucrative than just selling books. In essence, the book builds and brands you in the public eye. It gives you credibility and the opportunity to be more than you are. It enables you to now be a voice, a teacher, a leader, an expert - after all, you wrote the book on it! ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#book-power #branding #celebrity #passive-income #royalties