Top 792 Actively Quotes & Sayings

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

We want to actively encourage children to continue with their development.

Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people.

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.

Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.

In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.

Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.

Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

The deeper one delves, the worse things look for actively managed funds.

I delivered my son. There were other people with me, but I was actively involved.

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

Never go dead for a second on stage. Even if you are doing nothing, do it actively.

Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'

The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.

Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.

You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put.

My mom actively did not want me to play professionally.

The learner should be actively involved in the learning process.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?

The government should be actively enforcing the high road.

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

I'm always actively working on being a better me.

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

Not actively surviving is passively dying.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

I feel I don't face issues because I never seek work actively.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

What I wanted to do was put a woman of color, front and center, in my movie combining a lot of themes that were relevant to both men and women. I actively wanted her to carry the weight of this movie because I'm a woman. And I actively wanted to explore many of the issues that affected her as a woman of color. That was very important to me. And although these issues affect some women of color, I don't think they're only of interest to women of color. They're of universal interest.

If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.

Gaming is something you have to force actively against and I will do this.

I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K.