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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.


James Humes


#even #leader #leaders #leadership #mind

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.


Claude Bernard


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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.


Robin Morgan


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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.


Tacitus


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When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!


Adam S. McHugh


#conflict #introverts #passive-aggressive #anger

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.


Daisaku Ikeda


#forces #historical #history #merely #nor

[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (particularly amongst traditionally warlike cultures). The damsel in distress theme always struck me as embodying this: the hapless, innocently beautiful woman unwittingly enraptures the heroic male so completely that he would risk all to submit to her at his own peril, and quite in spite of it.


Tiffany Madison


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Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.


Corazon Aquino


#above #bears #blazing #hope #passively

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.


Aldous Huxley


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