The student is to read history actively and not passively.
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.
Whether McCain actively sought Palin in 2008 or passively yielded to aides' pressure, he set a new standard for GOP candidates who rely on lots of sizzle and little substance.
Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.
Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.
There?s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.
Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.
The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.