Salman Rushdie

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

Indian Novelist

James Patterson

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

American Author

Greg Davies

My dad always told me that, as far as he's concerned, I can do whatever I choose in life as long as I'm happy and can handle the consequences of bad decisions. He only ever said that when he thought I was doing the wrong thing. I would employ similar passive aggression.

British Comedian

Eckhart Tolle

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

German Speaker

Gwyneth Paltrow

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

American Actress

Elie Wiesel

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

American Novelist

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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

German Psychologist

Emraan Hashmi

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

Indian Actor

Paul Mooney

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

American Comedian

Robin Morgan

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

American Activist

Seeing 'passive' can suggest lack of emotion or detachment in personal interactions.

Emotional Implication

'Passive' might wrongly imply that one is weak-willed when they might be patiently enduring a situation.

Potential Misjudgment

Use 'passive' when observing someone's lack of action, not when they are unable to act.

Observing Action

In some cultures, being 'passive' is seen positively, as it indicates politeness or respect.

Cultural Perception

Know that the passive voice shifts focus from who is doing the action to the action itself.

Misplaced Focus

Using 'passive' in social contexts may suggest disinterest or lack of initiative.

Imply Disinterest

Remember, in electronics, 'passive' simply means the component does not require power.

Technical Clarity

'Passive' in finance often means the income is easy, but not always without initial effort.

Easy Income

 That's what happens along a concentration gradient, as substances shift passively from a high, or squashed, concentration, to a lower, more comfortable one. How does this relate to ocean currents and thermohaline circulation? Thermo means temperature, and haline means salt because in the real world scenario of the sea,

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 So, how did they accomplish this feat? Until recently, marine biologists thought of larval fish as largely passive drifters, dispersed by ocean currents to distant locales. But in the last 20 years, new research has suggested that larvae may not be as helpless as they seem,

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 comparable to how muscles work in the calf region. This bionic propulsion is very important clinically to patients. So on the left, you see the bionic device worn by a lady, on the right, a passive device worn by the same lady, that fails to emulate normal muscle function,

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 it's no wonder our messages sometimes turn into a mush of miscommunication. But, luckily, there are some simple practices that can help us all navigate our daily interactions for better communication. recognize that passive hearing and active listening are not the same.

How miscommunication...

 But the only way your brain can do that, is that it has to, instead of generating a perception of the way the world was when light hit your retina, it has to do something fancier. It can't passively respond and create a best guess,

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 we can be part of the solution as opposed to passively saying just let it happen i don't find that to be acceptable we can do things without necessarily stopping all the things that are important we can't open the economy

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 and two passive parts, listening and reading. While a balanced bilingual has near equal abilities across the board in two languages, most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages in varying proportions.

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 that's a pretty compelling sign of life. Or, what if, instead of a structure that passively soaked up all the star's energy, like a plant, an alien civilization built one that actively sucked the energy out of the star

Is there a limit to...

 frustrated so we're trying to use wireless technology to help the visually impaired navigate safely through buildings so how we do it is we have passive RFID tags radio frequency

How electromagnetic...

 in better understanding the passive and active nature of rest we can more easily approach life with calm clarity and ease