Active Quotes

• I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

  

  Jessica Tandy
  • Thinking
  • Creativity
  • Able

• The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Expectations
  • Clouds
  • Landscape

• I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Active
  • Carter Center

• The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Virtue
  • Excellence

• People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Chance
  • Lucky
  • Incredibles

• Too much time is spent getting ready to live and making a living and not enough in living dynamically and enjoyably right now. The most important thing – and I am sure I am right – is to maintain an active, alert interest in everything going on about you.

  

  Nile Kinnick
  • Interest
  • Living
  • Active

• Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.

  

  Rose Schneiderman
  • People
  • Today
  • Labor

• I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

  

  Susie Bright
  • Active
  • Feminism
  • Liberation

• But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Happens
  • Realizing
  • Excited

• DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Existence
  • Communicate

• Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Hunger
  • Active
  • Nourishment

• The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Christian
  • Soldier
  • Duty

• Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hear
  • Active
  • Inner Voice

• He can still play, he can go out there and put up numbers with the best of them. The sooner he becomes active within our system, the better it's going to be for us.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Play
  • System
  • Active

• The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

  

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  • Records
  • Mankind
  • Philosopher

• MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

  

  Paul Quantrill
  • Game
  • Active

• The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Employment
  • Vices
  • Idleness

• We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an ex­ternal, active, work project.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Artist
  • Projects
  • Active

• I'm a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Yoga
  • Youth
  • Mentoring

• The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

  

  Willis R. Whitney
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • Curiosity

• Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Different
  • Active
  • Passive

• Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

  

  Joshua Michael Stern
  • Sexy
  • Computer
  • Active

• I am extremely active and conscious of not eating any processed foods.

  

  Sebastian Roche
  • Conscious
  • Eating
  • Active

• I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Happy
  • Child
  • Active

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